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Mayor to School Board: Resign or Face Charges of Child Pornography

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Meghan Roos, the writer of that article, should resign in shame and find another career, preferably one that doesn’t involve some form of communication with other humans.

If you click on that link and read the article, you will barely be any more informed than when you read the title of this thread.
 
Meghan Roos, the writer of that article, should resign in shame and find another career, preferably one that doesn’t involve some form of communication with other humans.

If you click on that link and read the article, you will barely be any more informed than when you read the title of this thread.

Better article...

 
Except it wasn‘t child pornography. The book contained written prompts for use in getting students to write. Some of the 642 prompts were sexual in nature but none had anything to do with children. The students are prepping for college which means they’re likely around 17 years old, hardly children.

The mayor is a moron. The school board members who added the book to the curriculum either didn’t do a thorough job or are idiots who love courting controversy.
 
Better article...

Best part of the article:

“That’s not to say the material went unread. A senior who spoke to the school board reported that students quickly found the controversial pages and read them.”

If that isn’t a demonstration of the Streisand Effect, nothing is.
 
The controversy is explained a bit in this article that gives an example of a writing prompt some people consider offensive. That particular prompt was never assigned to students.

Nothing on the list seems to be child pornography and the school board should stand its ground.
 
Except it wasn‘t child pornography. The book contained written prompts for use in getting students to write. Some of the 642 prompts were sexual in nature but none had anything to do with children. The students are prepping for college which means they’re likely around 17 years old, hardly children.

The mayor is a moron. The school board members who added the book to the curriculum either didn’t do a thorough job or are idiots who love courting controversy.


This is an OUTRAGE!!! These high schools kids had no idea that sex even existed until this horrible plot by the school to introduce them to the dark arts... :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:
 
This is an OUTRAGE!!! These high schools kids had no idea that sex even existed until this horrible plot by the school to introduce them to the dark arts... :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:
I exchanged some pretty racy notes with girlfriends in high school and some that my friends wrote were even spicier. I guess we should have all been locked up.
 
Sometimes I wish I would have studied law instead of accounting, so that some day I might be lucky enough to be appointed a judge. Then I could sit on the bench and erupt in a fit of laughter when an attorney tried to present charges of child pornography based on a writing prompt. I’d probably have to call a 15 minute recess to re-gather my composure.
 
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Except it wasn‘t child pornography. The book contained written prompts for use in getting students to write. Some of the 642 prompts were sexual in nature but none had anything to do with children. The students are prepping for college which means they’re likely around 17 years old, hardly children.
man. that makes the OP look really, really bad.
 
I exchanged some pretty racy notes with girlfriends in high school and some that my friends wrote were even spicier. I guess we should have all been locked up.
notes? hell, just think about what we DID as juniors and seniors.
 
GOP outrage politics sinks to new depths of imbecility.
this kind of thing is literally how they get more votes or keep the base pissed and thus keep their votes.

suckers.
 
We have a DP poster who has announced that he would prefer a pedophile in office over a Democrat....
They are not alone in that preference. Moore got more than 600K votes in the Alabama special election. He was strongly supported by whites including both male and female.
 
So child pornography can be overlooked if they resign? That sounds like aiding and abetting criminals.

^^^ This

Weird choice - you committed a crime but we won't charge you if you resign? If he thinks it's a crime, go ahead and try to charge them, and be ready for counter-suit.

Otherwise, it's simply an admission that you are full of BS and threatening charges over nothing.
 
I exchanged some pretty racy notes with girlfriends in high school and some that my friends wrote were even spicier. I guess we should have all been locked up.
Had the teacher or the school board sent those notes to said girlfriend, different maybe?
 
There is something seriously wrong with a certain demographic in the U.S. when EVERYTHING offends them.
I have done threads on nude beaches, THEY were offended, other threads I have read dealt with acceptable attire in public, and THEY were SO offended.

Are we still living in the 1950s? I suspect there is a serious social issue with some of those who get SO easily offended when they hear the word "sex", see a body part exposed, or a school curriculum encourages students to THINK and explore their thoughts.

I was in highschool in the 70s, and we had to deal with the same small-minded insecure morally outraged people, when we were encouraged to read Catch in the Rye or when our highschool hired a gay teacher.

GET OVER YOURSELVES ALREADY: Kids are learning, exploring, discovering, expanding their thinking, and as a result they are less likely to grow up closed-minded like this Mayor or those who think like him.
 
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