News and Events => Education news => Topic started by: LostInTime on March 30, 2007, 04:22:34 PM Return to Full Version
Title: NH: Parents Protest H.S. Sex Newspaper
Post by: LostInTime on March 30, 2007, 04:22:34 PM
Post by: LostInTime on March 30, 2007, 04:22:34 PM
Link (http://www.wral.com/news/strange/story/1254091/)
Several said they were especially offended by a photograph of two women kissing under the headline, "Why men love women who love women," a quiz question about anal sex, and an interview with an unnamed custodian who said he had found a vibrator in the girls' shower.
"Those articles offended me personally as a parent," said Venus Merrill, a school board member. "It's not something you want to read with your 10-year-old and it's not something that should be going home."
...
The student paper's editor in chief, Katie McCay, and managing editor, Lisa McManus, said they wanted to educate students, nearly half of whom are already having sexual intercourse, according to a 2005 Youth Risk Behavior Survey at the high school. The true or false quiz was particularly enlightening, they said.
"As we put the pages on the table, the staff said, 'Oh my goodness, that's false? I had no idea,'" McCay said. "This is definitely stuff kids didn't know about."
Several said they were especially offended by a photograph of two women kissing under the headline, "Why men love women who love women," a quiz question about anal sex, and an interview with an unnamed custodian who said he had found a vibrator in the girls' shower.
"Those articles offended me personally as a parent," said Venus Merrill, a school board member. "It's not something you want to read with your 10-year-old and it's not something that should be going home."
...
The student paper's editor in chief, Katie McCay, and managing editor, Lisa McManus, said they wanted to educate students, nearly half of whom are already having sexual intercourse, according to a 2005 Youth Risk Behavior Survey at the high school. The true or false quiz was particularly enlightening, they said.
"As we put the pages on the table, the staff said, 'Oh my goodness, that's false? I had no idea,'" McCay said. "This is definitely stuff kids didn't know about."
Title: Re: NH: Parents Protest H.S. Sex Newspaper
Post by: Thundra on March 30, 2007, 06:08:48 PM
Post by: Thundra on March 30, 2007, 06:08:48 PM
LOL!!! That is sooooo great!
But I was born thirty years too early. :: sigh ::
Thundra <=== older than dirt.
But I was born thirty years too early. :: sigh ::
Thundra <=== older than dirt.
Title: Re: NH: Parents Protest H.S. Sex Newspaper
Post by: Attis on March 30, 2007, 09:54:02 PM
Post by: Attis on March 30, 2007, 09:54:02 PM
Hmm NH, I'll call Ian at Free Talk Live about this since I am an AMP member of that show since he's up in NH. :3
-- Bridget
-- Bridget