Explicit 'Banned Book' Infuriates Virginia Father, Leads to School Review

[Chris_]

Explicit 'Banned Book' Infuriates Virginia Father, Leads to School Review

A Virginia man says he became "infuriated" when he discovered that his 16-year-old son brought home a book he'd been given in school that contained references to homosexuality, drug use and explicit sexual behavior.

The father's complaint has led to a school review of the novel, "Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky, which has been a source of controversy in other schools across the country.

John Davis, of Vinton, Va., said his son, Matthew, brought the book home after it was given to him by a friend who had gotten it from Kathleen Renard, an English teacher at William Byrd High School.

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Davis said the book's "very descriptive" language on topics like homosexuality, masturbation and drug use is inappropriate for his son, who is in 11th grade.

"I don't think it's age-appropriate for anyone," he said. "I don't think adults should be reading that junk. It's pornography. They're corrupting his mind with this garbage."

Davis said he confiscated the book and contacted William Byrd High School principal Richard Turner to arrange a meeting with him and Renard. During the Oct. 2 meeting, Davis said, Turner refused to make Renard available and emphatically stated he would not fire her.

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Garbage in, garbage out.

[Chump]

And the indoctrination continues.  Normal people are rightly disgusted by this sort of lunacy and perversion, so the only recourse the left has is to cram it down the throats of the young.  The reasons to home-school pile up daily.

[Thor]

I dunno if this is so terrible. I remember that "Portnoy's Complaint" was a popular book back in the 70s, maybe earlier.

[DumbAss Tanker]

I dunno if this is so terrible. I remember that "Portnoy's Complaint" was a popular book back in the 70s, maybe earlier.

I remember that, I read part of it.  Seemed overdramatized, autobiographically self-absorbed, kind of stupid, and full of ethnic New York Jewish angst and Yiddish idiom to a tedious degree (Of course I find just about anybody's angst excessivley tedious right of the bat).  Popular enough, but I couldn't sustain enough interest to read the whole thing.  Not that it was school reading, of course.