Bodycam footage inside classroom shows Massachusetts cop saying they could "search every room and ask every teacher" for Gender Queer book
Bodycam footage inside classroom shows Massachusetts cop saying they could "search every room and ask every teacher" for Gender Queer book
Bodycam footage obtained by The Eagle shows a police officer in an eighth grade classroom asking to see a copy of “Gender Queer,” and informing the teacher and school principal
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The cop is going about this wrong. The teacher that brought that book in is also wrong. They are wrong to assume the illustrations are appropriate for young children, I’m not talking about the queer aspect, it shows illustrations of oral sex. The teacher should be reprimanded by administrators, if no law was broken, the police shouldn’t be involved.
This was an eighth grade class room, they've been through sex-ed. Withholding knowledge about how their physical bodies work won't help them, and can create issues of their own. I thumbed through the pages (and you can too) and nothing was terribly pornagraphic.
I’ve read it. It’s designed for at least seniors in high school if not college age. It talks about visiting kink.com among other mature subjects. It’s an interesting exploration of someone who is trying to find themselves, but it isn’t eighth grade material.
Still, there’s no reason to send a cop to hunt it down like this is Farenheit 451.
Of course it's eighth grade material, and also appropriate for younger children. Any kid interested should have access to the book. It's written exactly for the kids who need it.
Get real, “withholding knowledge ” …part of raising a child is understanding when to expose them to information, you do it everyday. This material is probably appropriate for a high school library.
This wasn't required reading, it was a resource. These are also teenagers, the last grade before high school in my district. Some districts merge earlier, so I guess it would be 'in a high school library' at that point. I'm not sure why you're so personally upset about a book that you haven't read.
You decide when it's appropriate for a kid to wonder about their sexuality. Can't have kids deciding what they're wondering about.
Didn’t say that I decide when it’s appropriate for them to wonder. But it’s your job as a parent to be mindful of what media including books your child is consuming. Just because it’s written in a book doesn’t mean it’s appropriate for anyone who “wonders”.
Any questions any kid has about growing up, certainly including questions about their bodies and sexuality, should be easily answerable from an open shelf at the school library.
This book was brought in by a teacher, it wasn’t in the library. School librarians screen for age appropriate material.