6 [Nontroversy] A teacher got themselves fired over an unabridged variant of "Diary Of A Young Girl". (archive.li) posted 1 year ago by AbleistSL 1 year ago by AbleistSL +8 / -2 18 comments share 18 comments share save hide report block hide replies
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.