Menifee USD pulls dictionaries

[waggy]

http://www.swrnn.com/southwest-rive...e-usd-pulls-dictionaries-due-to-explicit-word

A parent complaint that a dictionary in her son’s classroom at Oak Meadows Elementary contained the term and definition for “oral sex” prompted school officials in the Menifee Union School District to pull all copies of the book from its fourth and fifth grade classrooms last week.

Copies of Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition (published in 1994), were taken from a recommended reading list and put into use in district classrooms a few years ago to accommodate higher level readers, said Betti Cadmus, spokeswoman for the district.

“The reason behind buying a college-level dictionary is that we have students who are reading at much higher levels,” Cadmus said.

Read more: http://www.swrnn.com/southwest-rive...ctionaries-due-to-explicit-word#ixzz0dmjaPstC





WTF!?? REALLY?

damn i really don't know what else to say..just amazes me.

 

[lupi]

not seeing the problem here.

 

[Miramonti]

I blame Adam and Eve for this.

 

[RESmonkey]

It's a dictionary. fail on their part.

 

[Born2bwire]

Jesus Fucking Christ.

Why don't they just burn the dictionaries too while they are at it?

EDIT: Oh, in the follow up article:

Cadmus said it was not just one parent that complained, but that there was a growing parent concern at Oak Meadows Elementary over the explicit term, which it turns out was not contained in the dictionary; though other words that might be considered age-inappropriate were found.

Oh the huge manitee!

I bet they found "condom." I know I did in the college level dictionary that we kept at home. My parents were such horrible people to expose their children to such things.

 

[Ika]

I remember looking up "vagina" in fifth grade and giggling.

 

[Canai]

hmm back in the day atot covered these stories before the interwebs. this was on dvorak days ago.

 

[Born2bwire]

I remember looking up "vagina" in fifth grade and giggling.

You know, the more I think about it the more I realize the only thing we did use the dictionary for was to look up naughty words. Ha.

 

[Jeff7]

More delicious goodthink, anyone?

 

[Colt45]

'murrica.

 

[ShawnD1]

If I wrote this woman a letter, would she try to look up what "kill yourself" means or just assume it's something sexual?

 

[Newbian]

It's like writing "80085" in a calculator.

Does that mean we should ban them now?

 

[ahenkel]

yes protect the children.

 

[techs]

I wonder how they handle "cunning linguist"?

 

[Sea Moose]

I wonder how they handle "cunning linguist"?

I loled


Have a cookie

 

[ahenkel]

people should protest this with picket signs that have the definition of oral sex on them

 

[sdifox]

I loled


Have a cookie

He recycled a James Bond joke (Goldeneye if my memory serves). Which may have been said elsewhere first.

 

[lupi]

For the peanut gallery, you do realize parents also block internet service and tv channels for their kids. Just incase you run low on the can I make myself look stupid jokes.

 

[cliftonite]

For the peanut gallery, you do realize parents also block internet service and tv channels for their kids. Just incase you run low on the can I make myself look stupid jokes.

That is in their house. You are going to allow every parent to impose their own set of filters on the rest of the district? Besides they didn't pull the book they decided to offer another dictionary for those who have a problem with it. http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_W_sdictionary27.4315477.html

 

[Zedtom]

I suppose the family will have to get rid of the dog after they observe him licking his snausage.

 

[sdifox]

I suppose the family will have to get rid of the dog after they observe the wife licking the dog's snausage.

fixed it for ya

 

[TheVrolok]

Looking up dirty words/topics in dictionaries/encyclopedias is every little kid's God given right! Ooohhh those were the days.

 

[waggy]

That is in their house. You are going to allow every parent to impose their own set of filters on the rest of the district? Besides they didn't pull the book they decided to offer another dictionary for those who have a problem with it. http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_W_sdictionary27.4315477.html

sheesh. i just find this really really fucking dumb. taking a dictionary out because kids might learn something naughty?

 

[Kirby]

I'm sure the schools are dealing with an epidemic of students taking dictionaries to bathroom to do the five knuckle shuffle.

 

[mb]

It's like writing "80085" in a calculator.

Does that mean we should ban them now?

All attempts to enter or solve for 80085 or 58008 will now result in 80084.999... or 58007.999...., respectively.