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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is for middle schoolers?

Totally reasonable. You cannot bubble wrap your kids from everything out in the world, and you certainly can't at ages 11-13. If you're concerned, read the books they read and talk about it with them. Literature is a great (and safe!) way to be exposed to different experiences, even really awful negative ones or explicit ones or ones that don't tie neatly into "good" or "bad." Don't you want them to learn about the holocaust? And slavery? You can't paint the whole world with rainbows and sunshine. They aren't little kids anymore. [/quote]

The question is, if a girl said she was looking forward to getting home so she could suck off her boyfriend, would that be okay? What about kids using the word dick in the classroom? And what about a guy saying if his girlfriend annoys him then he might slap her a bit? If we wouldn’t tolerate those things from our kids then I don’t see why they should be reading it.[/quote]

I would want my kid to read it to understand that some kids really are like this, and how to understand why they are like that. What makes people make the choices they do? What role can my kid play in society overall to make it better for everyone?[/quote]

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