Father arrested protesting over teaching Jodi Picoult at high school
A father in New Hampshire has been arrested after protesting over Jodi Picoult's novel Nineteen Minutes being assigned to high-school children.
The novel deals with a school shooting, and bullying, but the objections in Gilford, New Hampshire were raised over a one-page sex scene. William Baer, whose 14-year-old daughter was assigned the book, told CBS Boston that the scene "reads like a transcript for a triple X porno movie," and that parents "had no notice of it whatsoever, no written notice, no verbal, nothing".
The scene sees character Josie having sex with her overbearing boyfriend Matt. "He kissed her so hard that it hurt. 'Mmmph,' she said, pushing at him. 'Relax,' Matt murmured, and then he sank his teeth into her shoulder. He pinned her hands over her head and ground his hips against hers." The scene goes on to reference Matt's erection, and the pair having sex.
Baer was arrested and handcuffed after attacking the school's decision to set the book at a school board meeting this week, according to local reports. Acting Gilford police chief James Leach told CBS that "there were repeated attempts to ask him to stop. I asked him to leave. He refused. He said, 'arrest me or I'm not going to' … so I did."
full: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/08/father-arrested-protesting-jodi-picoult-high-school
because it's not like "the classics" are any less sleazy?
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