Sounds like Giavanna just didn’t want to do homework..

WOW! Only 9 kids in the class?

“There’s nothing that can be taken away from this except for disgustedness,” Naprawa said.

Maybe the mother could stand to pick up a book sometime…

The real tragedy here…….the mother’s eyebrows! LOL

listen mrs your child have been exposed to more that this before she have read the book, because in my days as a high school student by the time our so year everyone knew about these kind of things so what i basically a mother who is clue less and don’t want to wake up to reality this is the real world that we are living in. I’m pretty sure that your daughter may or may not have had a boyfriend and knows more that she is telling you. Basically you guys just over reacted, and the teacher who did this i see no wrong because your child may know alot more that she is saying.

Diaphragm- a dome-shaped, muscular partition separating the thorax from the abdomen in mammals. It plays a major role in breathing, as its contraction increases the volume of the thorax and so inflates the lungs.

WHATS WRONG WITH THAT??

that girl has one said and seen somethings that are much worst than that book and she over reacted for attention

Personally, I think she blew the whole thing out of proportion. First off, I know she’s done things worse that “read” a sexual book since I also go to the same high school. Secondly, she’s 16. Haven’t sixteen year old’s been preaching that they’re adults now? If she was an adult, she would have been mature enough to handle whatever she read. Thanks to her, one of my favorite English teachers have just been fired. She wasn’t a bad teacher, quite the opposite in fact! She was a fantastic teacher! Thanks to Gia, she’ll have trouble looking for a job for the rest of her life.

Great going.

Lose-Lose situation.

It’s pointless to be enraged because the teacher was a substitute, it won’t happen again, and you can’t exactly have the principal punished. Substitutes are picked on the as need basis and often there isn’t enough time to do dutiful background checks.

Besides the person probably could have a clean background and still recommend that kind of racy material to students because he/she feels it has immense education value.

I had to read stuff like that and went to a catholic school but then again I am a male and probably am not as sensitive or do not care. LOL

For future reference let a warning be issued, and an alternative reading be proposed for those with more sensitive eyes.

[...] A Queens HS student is complaining about sexually explicit content in her assigned reading. (CBS) [...]

I have to say that I disagree with the parent, the student, the situation, and every person crucifying this teacher and school.

I’ve read “The Rules of Attraction”, and it is not a book that is solely about sex, nor would I label it an “immoral sex book”. The majority of the book involves characters struggling with their own identities, relationships and personal issues. Yes, sex comes into it. Yes, it’s a bit racy at times. But what kind of message are we sending teens by telling them that the way to deal with sex is just to magically learn about it one day and sweep it under the rug until then? Isn’t it better that they see it in a literary context where it isn’t the center of the discussion and discuss it in an educational forum than they watch The Jersey Shore, or get mixed messages by seeing Miley Cyrus wear a purity ring one minute and hump a pole in her underpants the next?

Before I’m inevitably attacked for my low sense of moral fiber, let it be stated that I never experimented with sex, drugs or the like in high school. I read books with people doing so, and I focused on the grander themes of the story rather than immaturely rolling my eyes and saying, “EW – they’re having SEX!” See, because my parents were responsible enough to teach me about all of that themselves; they didn’t feel so insecure in how they brought me up that they felt they had to go attack the world for presenting me with what it will. It’s this kind of forced ignorance on the youth of our culture that causes so many teen pregnancies. There’s a whole world hidden from teens and they catch glimpses of it on TV, but are afraid to ask educated questions, so they wind up secretly giving in to urges and getting themselves pregnant at sixteen.

My point – you can’t make a person “moral” by hiding the world from them. It’s out there. If a person’s truly moral, their attitudes and beliefs won’t be shaken by a book. If parents are doing their jobs, then something like this should be, in no way, threatening.

And, as a final point, I don’t get one thing…HOW OLD are these kids? High school JUNIORS?!?! In two years, they’ll start college – if they take any college level course in literature, film, drama or liberal arts, they’re bound to be exposed to material that is, at the very least, similar to this. Should universities start reading the Arthur series just to satisfy hysterical parents? Really, you would think from this article that this book was presented to children who are in the first grade. These are young adults. If they can read Twilight, watch Jersey Shore or invest in any of these pop culture references, they can read The Rules of Attraction.

She’s uncomfortable reading the word “diaphragm?” I don’t think they need to change the reading material – I think they need to change the sex ed.

Dear Global Friends,
Please go to the root of the person who wrote this immoral sexual book or the authority who gave the permission to be published and sold.
Today the world is packed with immoral sexual activities where women are forced into prostitution or as human trade. Can justice truly wash-off these activities ?