Wait at what ages are they reading about Anne Frank? I'd have gone at least 14-15 minimum to have the maturity to understand the context and situation it was written under.
My concern is now tied with them giving out sex books to prepubesant kids, they are giving shit out without ensuring the necessary maturity to understand the context is there.
Anne frank isn't the issue, that is the distraction.
The issue is that some content isn't appropriate for a school curriculum.
My position is that no explicitly sexual content, as in depictions of sex acts, should be allowed in schools and implicitly sexual content should be default prohibited but can be allowed on a specific case basis.
Shakespeare's got some pretty raunchy passages, btw. Romeo and Juliet have two that I can remember from high school off the top of my head:
Mercutio talking to Romeo about the "dewy south". He's talking about going down on some prostitute (or his girlfriend, whichever.)
That silly nanny and her rambling. What was it she found so funny? When she was talking about an exchange between Juliet and her father when Juliet was just a small child. It has to do with Juliet falling on her back, and her father asking her if she'd fall so readily when the time came. The child said "yes", and this is what the nanny was laughing about. Think about it.
BUT this was high school, grade 10 if I remember right.
Though we did have one chick complain about how "gross" it was (the teacher was trying to be very discreet, and really merely led our already-dirty little adolescent minds there, and the quicker kids helped clue in the slower ones). His response? It went something like this:
"I didn't write it, Shakespeare did. My job is to make sure you kids understand every line of this play before you leave here at the end of the year, otherwise, I haven't done my job."
I find myself falling into this trap a lot lately, and actively try to remember that "he" is the singular neutral pronoun, not "they."
When you don't know the sex of the person in question, use "he." At worst, you'll be corrected to "she."
Note: The unabridged editions are infamous for inappropriate content, most editions are based off the first and thus censored.
What is inappropriate content? Just curious since we all know the ending of that diary and wondering what's worse than that?
She writes about fingerblasting herself. Or her dad writes about it.
Yeah all of it was edited/written by her dad. There's no unabridged version.
Unabridged meaning all the stuff that he chose to write/put in there is included, including his daughter fingerblasting herself.
That's controversial? (if you're not joking) You're literally hiding from guys trying to genocide you and that's the controversial part?
How are these weak fools given the power to dictate what books are released?
Deemed not appropriate for children is not the same as censored.
Why should there be any discussion, mention, or reference to masturbation as a part of the curriculum in public schools?
Wait at what ages are they reading about Anne Frank? I'd have gone at least 14-15 minimum to have the maturity to understand the context and situation it was written under.
My concern is now tied with them giving out sex books to prepubesant kids, they are giving shit out without ensuring the necessary maturity to understand the context is there.
Anne frank isn't the issue, that is the distraction.
The issue is that some content isn't appropriate for a school curriculum.
My position is that no explicitly sexual content, as in depictions of sex acts, should be allowed in schools and implicitly sexual content should be default prohibited but can be allowed on a specific case basis.
Shakespeare's got some pretty raunchy passages, btw. Romeo and Juliet have two that I can remember from high school off the top of my head:
Mercutio talking to Romeo about the "dewy south". He's talking about going down on some prostitute (or his girlfriend, whichever.)
That silly nanny and her rambling. What was it she found so funny? When she was talking about an exchange between Juliet and her father when Juliet was just a small child. It has to do with Juliet falling on her back, and her father asking her if she'd fall so readily when the time came. The child said "yes", and this is what the nanny was laughing about. Think about it.
BUT this was high school, grade 10 if I remember right.
Though we did have one chick complain about how "gross" it was (the teacher was trying to be very discreet, and really merely led our already-dirty little adolescent minds there, and the quicker kids helped clue in the slower ones). His response? It went something like this:
"I didn't write it, Shakespeare did. My job is to make sure you kids understand every line of this play before you leave here at the end of the year, otherwise, I haven't done my job."
Master Degree teachers ftw.
Let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater.
It's pretty clear when sex is being presented as queer propaganda.
The diary is an important historical artifact. The masturbation stuff is incidental.
I suppose I can imagine some adolescent boys steering the classroom discussion to the naughty bits--
"Yeah, Mr. Hand, we know they were hiding from the Nazis, but what.about this fingerblasting stuff on page 98?"
"Spiccolli, I see what you're trying to do and it won't work."
Is it explicit or implied? If it is explicit then outright no, cut that part. I haven't read it since forced to in high school so I don't remember.
If it is implied then make a judgement and take into account the age of the kids. Seniors probably, freshmen, probably not.
We read the Anne Frank Diary in middle school in the 90s. I guess it was censored?
Her father censored it. She was a young girl stuck with a boy of her age with nothing better to do. So, that stuff was taken out.