26 Jan 2010
Menifee USD pulls dictionaries due to explicit word

If you wonder about the reasons for the dismal state of the American educational system, just remember this formula: zero tolerance = zero sense.

A parent complaint that a dictionary in her son’s classroom at Oak Meadows Elementary contained the term and definition for “oral sex” prompted school officials in the Menifee Union School District to pull all copies of the book from its fourth and fifth grade classrooms last week. Copies of Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition (published in 1994), were taken from a recommended reading list and put into use in district classrooms a few years ago to accommodate higher level readers, said Betti Cadmus, spokeswoman for the district.

(link) [Southwest Riverside News Network]

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