Sexually Explicit Book in Florida School Library
 

A third-grader in south Florida found a very adult book in his school library this week.Calvin McHenry checked out a graphic novel from the Hebron Heights Elementary School library in Parkland, Fla., and found a story he did not expect to read.

"I saw lots of people killing people and lots of kissing," McHenry said.

The book is called "Tank Girl One," a series about a pilot turned outlaw with a drinking problem who is often prone to violence and routinely finds herself in raunchy sexual situations.

McHenry's mother, Michelle, described the images in the book saying: "There was guns to heads, girls with girls, alcohol, sexual things that are just really, really bad."

The school board said the book arrived by mistake as part of a large shipment for the new library that contained over 7,000 books. The wrong book was even labeled with that title.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/01/27...est=latestnews

Note: Published January 27, 2011

the most erotic thing we have at our school library is a biology textbook

Flowers and bees, not bad, :yep:

Gone are the days when the boys were excited about the new National Geographic issues I guess. :O:

As a librarian, I have seen or heard of some interesting fights over what should be in libraries. Most public libraries in gereral don't censor their collections, but hold any material that could be offensive in stack or storage. If someone wants it, they will get it, an example is "The Satanic Verses"

My Mother was a teacher/librarian, who always had a laugh when she found the boys looking through art books to see naked women.:rotfl2:

Aye, and I've seen some firm granite bottoms that can make you weep. :-?

Whatever happened to raiding the old man's Penthouse stash? Sheesh! :O:

Back when I was a kid we couldn't wait for the new Sear's catalog, to check out the undie section...

ZOMFG:eek: OH NOOOOEEEEES!!!!!! People kissing and people with guns killing people!!! And even [shiver] ALCOHOL!!!:o:o:o:dead:
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What are we gonna do now? That kid is never gonna be able to lead a normal life again! Never will he be able to have sex or take a drink, without being reminded of this traumatic experience from his childhood!!!! Because of this he won't be able to have sex, so he'll become a nerd. But he can't become a nerd because he can't play games. So he'll end up as an emo:o:dead:

The main thrust of the article is that the book was found in a school library. OMFG how did that happen?

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Edited significantly.

Yep, he was a bit young for this kind of a book, but h has to start asking ''the questions'' one day

Darkfish wrote:

" ... ZOMFG:eek: OH NOOOOEEEEES!!!!!! People kissing and people with guns killing people!!! And even [shiver] ALCOHOL!!!:o:o:o:dead:
http://rolltidebama.com/forum/images...iley_panic.gif
What are we gonna do now? That kid is never gonna be able to lead a normal life again! Never will he be able to have sex or take a drink, without being reminded of this traumatic experience from his childhood!!!! Because of this he won't be able to have sex, so he'll become a nerd. But he can't become a nerd because he can't play games. So he'll end up as an emo:o:dead: ..."

I could no have said it better. "Tank girl" is just an older comic (and this is maybe why it found its way to said library), and much less violent or sexually explicit than most of other older and newer US comics circulating among the youth. In the sixties it was Barbarella, Evarella and all kinds of drug comics, now you have bands like "Slipknot" and this culture is being reflected in all kind of media.
America is so hypocritical, on one hand all actors wear underwear in sex scenes of Hollywood productions, on the other the hardest Pornos are produced by your neighbour, and sent to YouTube. Public drinking of alcohol only from bottles in paperbags. But get those 18-year old in the army and let them kill or be killed :dead:

I agree it should not be in a school library - but if you really want to hide this stuff away from your children, where do you want to begin ?
All that makes money is sacred, this is especially true in the US, and the sex and porn market is alive and expanding or so it seems. They want to sell stuff, and the consumer cannot be young (and thus, dumb) enough. Young people are easy to influence :shifty:
So again, where do you begin ?

Greetings,
Catfish

So it was supposed to be a book about a school bully with an abusive stepfather struggling with education and trying to understand the females of the species.
Easy to mix the two up I suppose.

You shouldnt keep stuff like this from the children, You should show them and have a talk with them about what everything is, whats right and wrong and at an early enough age that they'll even listen, not when they're 16.
They will learn eventually, the difference is will you teach them to have sex responsibly and safely or they'll learn it the way I did, trough alcohol.

the real problem here.




kids these days cant keep their damned mouths shut... kid could have had a good thing going!!:haha: