In response to a request from the president of the Livingston Organization for Values in Education, or LOVE, the county’s top law enforcement official reviewed the books to see whether laws against distribution of sexually explicit materials to minors had been broken. High School (2007) because of the book’s strong sexual content. 103-4.ĭraper, Sharon M., and Adam Lowenbein Romiette and JulioĬhallenged in the Howell, Mich. Source: Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom,July 2006, pp. District Court Judge Mark Wolf ruled February 23, 2007, that public schools are “entitled to teach anything that is reasonably related to the goals of preparing students to become engaged and productive citizens in our democracy.” Wolf said the courts had decided in other cases that parents’ rights to exercise their religious beliefs were not violated when their children were exposed to contrary ideas in school.
The incident renewed the efforts of Waltham-based Parents’ Rights Coalition to rid the state’s schools of books and lessons that advance the “homosexual agenda” in public schools. “By presenting this kind of issue at such a young age, they’re trying to indoctrinate our children,” stated the parent. The book was used as part of a lesson about different types of weddings. (2006) second-grader protested that their son’s teacher read the fairy tale about gay marriage to the class without warning parents first.
This has entailed trawling through more than 4000 books - plus song lyrics, TV and movie scripts, and many newspapers and magazines - for relevant material.Parents of a Lexington, Mass. Jonathon Green has spent the last seven years on a vast project: to research in depth the English slang vocabulary and to hunt down and record written instances of the use of as many slang words as possible. 'Brilliant.' said Mark Lawson on BBC2's The Late Review 'This is a terrific piece of work - learned, entertaining, funny, stimulating' said Jonathan Meades in The Evening Standard.But now the world's best single-volume dictionary of English slang is about to get even better. With its unparalleled coverage of English slang of all types (from 18th-century cant to contemporary gay slang), and its uncluttered editorial apparatus, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang was warmly received when its first edition appeared in 1998. Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
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