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Video: Parents Object to Students Reading 'Robopocalypse' Because of Profanity
A summer reading assignment at Hardin Valley Academy in Knoxville, Tennessee has stirred up controversy (video below).
WBIR-TV reports that about 450 summer school students in the STEM Academy at Hardin Valley Academy were assigned the science-fiction book 'Robopocalypse.'
'Robopocalypse' was written by Daniel H. Wilson and has foul language that some parents object to.
For example, one sentence reads: "I swear to God and all his cronies, darling I'll f*cking kill you."
According to WBIR-TV. there are other instances of bad language in the New York Times bestseller, which was published last year.
In an email to parents, STEM Academy Dean Debbie Sayers wrote: "We discussed adult-level language, and decided that most (not all) students of this age group are exposed to profanity through much more graphic means than the written text...we knew there might be some objection to his, and we were willing to defer to parental concerns and discretion."
Parents may be even more infuriated in the future. Steven Spielberg is planning to do a film version of the book starring Chris Hemsworth of Marvel's 'The Avengers' and 'Thor.'
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This guy wants the students
This guy wants the students to be civilized, but not intelligent apparently. What are you five? Profanity has its place in literature and language. This is censorship, if they blacklist the book.
"darling I'll fucking kill
"darling I'll fucking kill you."
I often find it strange when people object to swearing, but ignore violence, or threats of violence. The book is about genocide, full of violence and gore, yet people are worried about "fuck."
I was told that it was due to
I was told that it was due to WWII when you had so many men living for so long without the need to keep their speech lean among the gentler sex that men became overly accustomed to the use of obscene words and blasphemous expressions.
To correct it now may be hopeless -- but we've got to at least _try_!
Like that's what really
Like that's what really started people using profanity. Sounds like someone who doesn't like the military trying to blame soldiers for a societal problem. WW2 certainly wasn't the first event to place men under those conditions. What about the women and female authors who uses the same language? I didn't see them on the battlefields in WW2.
"To correct it now may be
"To correct it now may be hopeless -- but we've got to at least _try_!"
Why?
For the sake of decency.
For the sake of decency.