What must it be like to be a walking, talking cliche?
Andrea Minnon of Lebanon said she had never heard of “The Catcher in the Rye” before she learned that it was on her 14-year-old son Spencer’s freshman reading list. After researching the book online with her husband, she concluded that it espouses immoral ideas that are inappropriate for freshman-age students. Now she wants it removed from the freshman curriculum.
This is why school boards should keep water balloons on hand.
I will never, ever understand parents that do this to their children. In my AP English class, it was required reading – along with A Color Purple, Song of Solomon, A Clockwork Orange…and as far as I can tell, I haven’t raped, murdered, or tortured anyone. It’ll be a much better day when these people realize that morality is best taught by parents through example, and not through media outlets. If these have an influence on your children, chances are you didn’t raise them right in the first place.
Of course, this argument is almost as cliche as the over-protective parent’s, but I gotta vent sometime.