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Texas dad gets school district to ban "my body" book

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Updated: 10/19/2010 11:53 am
BUDA, Texas -- A Buda dad upset about a book his young son brought home from school got that book banned from the school district.

His 8-year-old came home with the book "What's Happening To My Body" that includes definitions of rape, incest, sexual assault and even details how to have sex. The book says its for "boys ages 10 and up," but it was available to 1st graders as young as age 6.

The father took his concerns to the principal. The district has since pulled all of the books in all 21 school libraries.

The American Library Association says this book was one of the top banned and challenged titles by parents in the last 10 years.
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BootedTimes3 - 10/19/2010 4:43 PM
Book banning is the first step to book burning. Adolph is smiling somewhere. Texas parents have the right to censor what their own children read but not mine...

trutex - 10/19/2010 2:02 PM
The majority of what goes on in schools is not sex education it is sex instruction. Sex education in the form originally introduced in schools, teaching students about physiological differences, was used by liberals as the proverbial Camel's nose under the tent. Give a liberal an inch and they will take mile after mile.

LisaPowers - 10/19/2010 12:58 PM
Well, the school should have used a little sense in who the book was available to (since it did say for ages 10 and up), but to remove the book from the libraries entirely was overkill. Parents have the right to take a book from their OWN child, but not from other people's children. Book Banning is wrong!
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