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[b]That's not the only choice. The obvious choice is to escort him out, not to ARREST him. Talking over a time limit is not an offense where someone should be arrested. The fact you can't see that....seriously?[/b]

Did you read the passage in the book? The girl is essentially raped, then tells the guy she loves him after he says it first.  Is that the message, you, as an administrator, want to send a 9th grader? This, of course, is in addition to the graphic sexual descriptions. This father had every right to be pissed off about that. And all the board cared about was he went over the two minute rule. Perhaps if the school board showed some concern over the matter, there might have been dialog.[/quote]

The acting town police chief made the decision to arrest him. I would never second-guess the actions of local government.

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/08/father-arrested-protesting-jodi-picoult-high-school[/quote]

Seems that the school board apologized for their behavior --- OOOPS.  Looks like this man had damn good reason to be pissed off:

"The Gilford school board has since apologised in a statement for "the discomfort of those impacted and [b]for the failure of the School District to send home prior notice of assignment of the novel",[/b] and said that it will now revise its policies "to include notification that requires parents to accept controversial material rather than opt out"."[/quote]

They apologized that he had not received proper notice.   I think that's fair.  That book did require a notice.[/quote]

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