My daughter is in the Canadian equivalent of year 9 (age 14). For the past couple of weeks, her male teacher has been reading out loud a book called "Word Nerd" by Susin Neilson. It has some very inappropriate passages, referring to girls' body parts and clothing, and boys' reactions to them. This has made some of the girls feel uncomfortable, and I think the teacher sensed this because he said something to the effect that, stop complaining, the book is written by a woman after all! I would really like to make the Principal of the school aware of what is going on, but term finishes in a couple of weeks over here and my daughter doesn't want me to make a fuss. I am going to get a copy of the book out of the library today and read it for myself, then decide what to do. Do you think I should let it go, or does this man need a good telling off? Of all the beautiful literature they could have been reading...
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Male english teacher reading inappropriate book out loud to class
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geranium68 · 06/06/2015 12:58
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