Swearing in year 3 reading book

[babyin2020]

My 7 year old in year 3 came home today with a new book for reading at home he opened the book and handed it to me. The first line of the book opens with swearing. Do you think this is appropriate?

It's so bad, that it can't be written down here on MM, it will shock you all too much. !!

Definitely doesn't seem an appropriate text choice for Year 3...

Will you be told off by the teacher for defacing the book?

Noughts and Crosses is a young adult/ teen book. Excellent. For the right age group. Mature Y6 if it’s in a primary library maybe.
Probably given to him by mistake, or he chose it for himself.

Loads of high lighting there but no swear words except 'ass' . Not sure why you've high lighted the other bits. Have you actually defaced the school book?

So you're annoying about "ass" and "pissed" then? Not sure why some bits are highlighted either? They seem fine. Maybe not overly appropriate, but meh.

Why are the photos from two different books?

Think the highlights is done via iPhone. I'm unsure why you've highlighted a lot of it though? Ass and pissed I think I saw. But I do agree I'd not want my yr4 child reading that.

Some of the stuff you’ve highlighted is hilarious

It’s different books

They aren’t from the same book.

I think given this is the Miseducation of Cameron Post the swearing is the least of your worries

Accelerated reader by chance - but the sexual content makes me surprised it is in the primary school

Why are you posting from two different books?

Yes, clearly not appropriate for Year 3.
I'd guess that your child is a good reader, and that this book is what we term as a "high interest " book, i.e. aimed at (much)older readers with a lower reading ability. This book has been wrongly placed on the shelf as being appropriate for your child's reading ability level, not the content level.
It's obviously slipped through somehow- some suppliers send a variety of content for each reading level, and if no-one's actually opened and read each one, then this easily happens.
Send it back and point out that it is not suitable content. The school will be mortified.
In non-Covid times, this is the kind of job that schools really need volunteers to do.

They aren’t swear words. I imagine the teacher is going to talk about the suffering formal and informal language. Different cultures and different ways of expressing ourselves in different groups of people eg how you talk to your gran and how you talk to your mates
Marjorie Blackman is a celebrated author.

I think that's the Noughts and Crosses series by Malorie Blackman and it is incredible. I started reading it when I was in Year 6 and it had a real effect on me. However, I would say this series is aimed at YA. My mother recommended that I should read Flowers in the Attic when I was 11 so I don't think she had a great gauge of literary appropriateness.

I used to teach primary and there is no way I'd recommend these books to children in year 3. I'd definitely raise this with the teacher. They'll appreciate your feedback. It would be impossible for a teacher to read every single book in the school cover to cover before handing them out so I'm sure mistakes like this can happen sometimes 🤷‍♀️

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The Mole had been working his bollocks off all the morning, spring-cleaning his shit-hole of a home. First with brooms, then with dusters; then the stupid bastard had to get the ladder out and climb all over the bloody chairs. 'For fuck's sake! Now I've spilt this pail of sodding whitewash all over my arse! My back aches to buggery and I haven't even got the cunting hoover out yet!'

Yes, OP, these are YA and teen fiction, not meant for 7yos.

Probably shouldn't really be in a primary school library. There's no virtue even I 'advanced' readers in terms of what they can decode reading books which have subject matter inappropriate for their maturity.

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Hadn’t see year 3 , thought year 7. Yes I d pact it’s in the wrong section. Do they choose themselves or guided by teaching staff?

I’m glad I gave everyone some entertainment to get through the evening :) it is all in the same book also the first line hurt like a son of a Bitch was enough to stop my boy reading. Also the highlight bits were on iPhone and could barely get the lines straight so some are underlined some bits ended up highlighted

Oh I thought I'd got to the end but it hadn't loaded fully. Yeah not age appropriate, I'd mention to the teacher. My dd was quite advanced in her reading and when she was younger I'd stop her reading some books she bought home