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."
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.
That's exactly what I was thinking of when I said "implict on a case-by-case basis".
If you have to think about the meaning then it is risque, if it is explicit then that is pornographic.
Not really a difficult judgement but the decision making should be tuned to err on the side of protecting innocence the younger the class is.
Let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater.
It's pretty clear when sex is being presented as queer propaganda.
Why should sex be discussed or presented at all by public school teachers to students?