{"id":3732,"date":"2010-01-31T12:52:14","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T20:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=3732"},"modified":"2010-01-31T12:52:14","modified_gmt":"2010-01-31T20:52:14","slug":"great-moments-in-american-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/great-moments-in-american-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Moments in American Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pe.com\/localnews\/menifee\/stories\/PE_News_Local_W_sdictionary22.414bdf0.html\">Oh, good grief<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After a parent complained about an elementary school student stumbling across &#8220;oral sex&#8221; in a classroom dictionary, Menifee Union School District officials decided to pull Merriam Webster&#8217;s 10th edition from all school shelves earlier this week. School officials will review the dictionary to decide if it should be permanently banned because of the &#8220;sexually graphic&#8221; entry, said district spokeswoman Betti Cadmus. The dictionaries were initially purchased a few years ago for fourth- and fifth-grade classrooms districtwide, according to a memo to the superintendent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just not age appropriate,&#8221; said Cadmus, adding that this is the first time a book has been removed from classrooms throughout the district. &#8220;It&#8217;s hard to sit and read the dictionary, but we&#8217;ll be looking to find other things of a graphic nature,&#8221; Cadmus said. She explained that other dictionary entries defining human anatomy would probably not be cause for alarm.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0I love that \u201cprobably\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2010\/01\/policing-pc-in-the-new-century.html\" target=\"_blank\">H\/t: Andrew Sullivan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, good grief: After a parent complained about an elementary school student stumbling across &#8220;oral sex&#8221; in a classroom dictionary, Menifee Union School District officials decided to pull Merriam Webster&#8217;s 10th edition from all school shelves earlier this week. School &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/great-moments-in-american-education\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[454,181],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3733,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732\/revisions\/3733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}