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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unfortunately yes. Teachers are required to alert parents! However, parents can ask for specific titles, read them and opt their child out of any they feel are not appropriate. Teachers are required to provide an alternative assignment and to avoid any action or statement that would be critical of the child or parent. [/quote]

But if my child is the only one doing the alternative assignment, they won’t be part of any class discussions. How would that work? Won’t it be harder?[/quote]

It will make more work for the teacher, and your kid won't learn nearly enough, but you'll have saved your kid from the trauma of reading Romeo and Juliet.  Plus, it's always fun to embarrass your kid![/quote]

It’s not a classic, unfortunately. I would totally be on board with a classic. It’s a woke novel with “masturbation, heavy naked petting,” etc.[/quote]

If you know the book, why don't you name it?  So weird to be secretive.  [/quote]

It's probably something most people would consider a classic [/quote]

For 9th grade, Romeo and Juliet AND The Odyssey both fall under this policy and we have to send this warning to parents. Most would probably say both of these texts have value and aren’t sexually explicit though. Nonetheless. Because Odysseus sleeps with Cersei and Calypso we have to send the warning. [/quote]

Yes, and THAT is the problem.
Parents roll their eyes and go “oh—is that all?”
And then they assume it’s for Romeo and Hukiet and The Odyssey.
And they don’t actually read The Poet X, and its extremely detailed descriptions of masturbation and “feeling his hardness pressed against me” and the many other explicit sexual references that—without you having sent this notification, you’d be side-eyeing a teacher for introducing and discussing these pornographic passages with your fifteen year-old.
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I’m a child of the 70s and 80s, and by the time I was in 9th grade I’d already read all about sex and masturbation in my harlequin and silhouette romance novels, the VC Andrews smut that was all the rage then, and Danielle Steele, Harold Robbins, and Sidney Sheldon novels too.

You people are ridiculously uptight. Your 15 year old probably already knows all about sex from talking with friends or engaging with the internet encyclopedia; or if not, will not be traumatized by learning about it. It’s a normal part of being a mammal. It’s okay to talk about and it’s negligent not to talk about it with a girl who is maybe only one year or at most 3 years from the legal age of consent. Y’all should be talking about sex abundantly, and helping her to know all the reasons it’s good to wait and oh by the way, it’s okay to masturbate and here’s a copy of Our Bodies Ourselves and another of The Joy of Sex and you should spend lots of time in self exploration but wait until you really know a boy before remotely considering it.

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[b]We were assigned to read Flowers in the Attic by VC Andrews in 8th grade at my parochial school. [/b]On my own I openly read the series that included the Blue and the Grey and the Crystal Cave and its sequels plus  many classics. teachers were impressed. I remember them positively commenting on the Crystal Cave.

I swear public schools are way more conservative when it comes to being able to discuss topics and read books during school.[/quote]

I’m going to call bullsh*t on that.[/quote]

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