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Looking at the meeting minutes, one of the board members named Mike Cochran is pretty upset with the comic book. He says its too graphic and inappropriate. Ther

Looking at the meeting minutes, one of the board members named Mike Cochran is pretty upset with the comic book. He says its too graphic and inappropriate. There's swearing and the comic goes in great detail about the father of the main character losing his virginity and the mother cutting herself. There's naked depictions. His justification is that he's not concerned about the Holocaust stuff, he thinks the book is inappropriate for 7th-8th graders because of its graphic vulgar depictions. Then he goes on about an unrelated poem that uses the word ecstasy, and is upset that there's a question that children have to answer about what ecstasy is. He thinks its something to do with children being indoctrinated into vulgarity, sexuality, and inappropriateness. ...lol. I hate to break HN etiquette but this isn't so much about Holocaust denialism but really dumb people having really dumb hot takes. It boggles my mind that the depiction of nudity and sexual 'vulgarity' is somehow a greater cause for concern than the depiction of mass murder and dead bodies. Literal piles of corpses are okay but a titty isn't for Mr. Cochran.

metadat 5y ago
Classic "American culture" (of the old-school variety) straight from the middle of Tennessee, where in the same document they also choose to disclose they only want "like-minded folks" involved in the process. I think you nailed it on the head, they are desperate to shelter their children until they turn 18 and head off to college. I hope they don't let their kids near an Internet-connected computer or smartphone, otherwise it's all for show- oh, wait.. doesn't pretty much every kid get a phone in middle school or sooner these days? The board members are so antiquated and dusty, it's triggering my asthma even from thousands of miles away. Seriously though, it is sad that how the US public education system curriculum is now basically 100% controlled by the government. When the locals don't like the rules, they find a way around them. Then the rest of us rule-followers suffer through this standardized nonsense. Teachers in the USA nowadays don't get to decide much about the classes they teach, which certainly kills the unique magic I felt some teachers added to their classes and made for awesome experiences growing up. Sad.

metadat 5y ago

Classic "American culture" (of the old-school variety) straight from the middle of Tennessee, where in the same document they also choose to disclose they only want "like-minded folks" involved in the process. I think you nailed it on the head, they are desperate to shelter their children until they turn 18 and head off to college. I hope they don't let their kids near an Internet-connected computer or smartphone, otherwise it's all for show- oh, wait.. doesn't pretty much every kid get a phone in middle school or sooner these days? The board members are so antiquated and dusty, it's triggering my asthma even from thousands of miles away. Seriously though, it is sad that how the US public education system curriculum is now basically 100% controlled by the government. When the locals don't like the rules, they find a way around them. Then the rest of us rule-followers suffer through this standardized nonsense. Teachers in the USA nowadays don't get to decide much about the classes they teach, which certainly kills the unique magic I felt some teachers added to their classes and made for awesome experiences growing up. Sad.