Your Daily WTF: California Continues to Suck Edition.

[sechan19]

Copies of the Merriam Webster Collegiate Edition Dictionary have been pulled from K-8 schools in the Menifee Union School District (Southern California), after a parent complained that their child had found the words "oral sex" in them. Apparently, a committee is being formed to evaluate whether or not the books should be permanently banned or returned to the classrooms, and parent reactions have been mixed because there are a lot of stupid fucking people out there.

News flash, people: your kids need to know words to get by in this world; at the rate you're going they'll wind up relegated to the world of fast food service.

News flash #2: if you'd stop making such a goddamned big deal about it every time your kids say a single bad word (which, in my opinion, oral sex is not, although I will concede its potential lack of age-appropriateness) they'd give up on it and find something else to do with their time.

You can read all about the brouhaha here in an amusing post from a British blogger who is understandably perplexed by the crazy, half-witted Americans.

Also:
Menifee school panel will review banned dictionary (The Press-Enterprise).
Via.

Comments

[reteva.livejournal.com]

Yes, that is the question. People use dictionaries to look up words they heard somewhere else and didn't understand. So, clearly, the dictionary was not the source of the phrase "oral sex" for this child. But clearly, (s)he is saddled with parents too dim to consider such an angle.

[sigh]