Anne Frank's 'pornographic' diary
Posted: Wed May 01, 2013 12:14 pm
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Michigan mom wants Anne Frank's 'pornographic' diary censored from her daughter's school reading list
A Michigan parent wants parts of Anne Frank's prolific diary banned from her daughter's classroom.
Gail Horalek of Northville is upset over Frank's references to her own genitalia in the diary. She says the passages made her daughter uncomfortable and that the school should have requested parental permission before assigning it to students.
'It's pretty graphic, and it's pretty pornographic for seventh-grade boys and girls to be reading,' Horalek told the Detroit's Fox affiliate. 'It's inappropriate for a teacher to be giving this material out to the kids when its really the parents' job to give the students this information.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -list.html
The specific passages that upset Horalek's daughter involve Frank's discovery of her vagina.
'There are little folds of skin all over the place, you can hardly find it,' the passage reads. 'The little hole underneath is so terribly small that I simply can't imagine how a man can get in there, let alone how a whole baby can get out!'
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Horalek is not the first to complain about Anne Frank's diary.
The American Library Association has received half a dozen challenges against the book in the last two decades and Culpepper County Public Schools in Virginia stopped assigning the unabridged version three years ago after a parent complained.
There are other gooood books
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by the way the book's introduction was written by Eleanor Roosevelt.
(The diary, not the dino one...)
Michigan mom wants Anne Frank's 'pornographic' diary censored from her daughter's school reading list
A Michigan parent wants parts of Anne Frank's prolific diary banned from her daughter's classroom.
Gail Horalek of Northville is upset over Frank's references to her own genitalia in the diary. She says the passages made her daughter uncomfortable and that the school should have requested parental permission before assigning it to students.
'It's pretty graphic, and it's pretty pornographic for seventh-grade boys and girls to be reading,' Horalek told the Detroit's Fox affiliate. 'It's inappropriate for a teacher to be giving this material out to the kids when its really the parents' job to give the students this information.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -list.html
The specific passages that upset Horalek's daughter involve Frank's discovery of her vagina.
'There are little folds of skin all over the place, you can hardly find it,' the passage reads. 'The little hole underneath is so terribly small that I simply can't imagine how a man can get in there, let alone how a whole baby can get out!'
...
Horalek is not the first to complain about Anne Frank's diary.
The American Library Association has received half a dozen challenges against the book in the last two decades and Culpepper County Public Schools in Virginia stopped assigning the unabridged version three years ago after a parent complained.
There are other gooood books
[#img] http://cdn2.bigcommerce.com/server4900/ ... 0.1280.jpg[/img]
by the way the book's introduction was written by Eleanor Roosevelt.
(The diary, not the dino one...)