California School District Bans Dictionary Over 'Oral Sex' Definition

[kpete]

California School District Bans Dictionary Over 'Oral Sex' Definition


AP
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The Golden State's Menifee Union School District has yanked all copies of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary from its shelves and is investigating the classic American text for containing "age-inappropriate" words.

The trouble started when an inquisitive student got lost somewhere between "oralism" and "orang" and found a rather recent entry to the lexicon: "oral sex," a phrase that has been in common parlance since 1973 but still makes many parents fairly hot under the collar.

Menifee administrators chose to leave their lexicons languishing after a parent at Oak Meadows Elementary School complained about a child finding the definition, which reads, rather clinically: "oral stimulation of the genitals."

Now, more than 200 years after Noah Webster slashed the Us from British colours and honours in his very first American dictionary, this Riverside County school district 60 miles southeast of Los Angeles is looking to slash a little more.

more:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584010,00.html

[patrice]

1. More incompetent parents delegating their responsibilities to the state.

Read that, BIG GOVERNMENT.

[InkAddict]

2. Blame it on the dictionary, LOL!

I recall as a young child, I heard the word "prostitute" and did not know the definition. When I asked my parents, I was told to go "look it up."

[SidDithers]

3. Perhaps the parents can locate an age-appropriate dictionary...

with words like "teh" and "kitteh" and "OMG"

Fucking idiots abound. :banghead:

Sid

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. They obviously need Bowdler's Dictionary of Euphemism and Ear-Covering

so that children will give up on the dictionary, and instead turn to the true source of definitions for such phrases: older kids. Heaven forbid they get a clinical, accurate definition of something.

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

5. And people wonder why private/charter schools are becoming wildly popular.

Public school boards and administrations are a fucking joke.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. Maybe the school district should look up the word 'collegiate'. I think Merriam-Webster has a

dictionary for elementary school kids.