Illinois District 214 schools require pornographic reading
 
By a margin of 6 to 1, Cook County District 214 Board of Education voted at the May 25, 2006 meeting to continue to require students to read books that include passages that can only be characterized as pornographic.  Board Member Leslie Pinney was the lone dissenting vote.

What about your children (or grandchildren)?  Would you want them to be forced to read pornography and then discuss it in the classroom?

Put yourself in a child's role and read what they must read, below . . .

WARNING: Do NOT scroll down if you are sensitive to material that is forbidden to be broadcast by the FCC and will not be printed by any major newspaper in America (but educators require that teenagers read the below).

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent
Alvarez, Julia; Penguin Books
- “..cuddling and kissing, R’s hand exploring down my blouse. But if he wandered any lower I’d pull away.... I was afraid I’d get pregnant....so many references I didn’t know.. didn’t want to just be in the sack, screwed, balled, laid and fucked my first time with a man. ..worth a shit........are you frigid or something? ....Jesus, we’ve been going out a month.... When’s it going to be all right?”
- “The man spoke up. Whereyagoin? ...Excuse me she asked politely... leaning into the car...Something caught her eye. She looked down and stared, aghast. The man had tied his (shirt) ..above his waist and was naked (below). String... looped around his penis... his big blunt-headed thing grew so that it filled and strained at the lasso it was caught in.... C’moninere... C’m’on he moaned. He cupped his hand over his thing.... a pained, urgent expression was deepening on his face. ...His arm pumped at something... and after much agitation he was still. The face relaxed....bowed his head as if in prayer.
- “...since she couldn’t spend an overnight with him in New York, she had to travel thousands of miles to sleep with him. .... On the way home, she tossed her diaphragm in the first bin at (the airport).”

The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Chbosky, Stephen; Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Page 21 [He discovers masturbation.]
Do you know what "masturbation" is? I think you probably do because you are older than me. But just in case, I will tell you. Masturbation is when you rub your genitals until you have an orgasm.. Wow!
I thought that in those movies and television shows when they talk about having a coffee break that they should have a masturbation break. But then again, I think this would decrease productivity.
Page 27 [More on masturbation...]
I guess I forgot to mention in my last letter that it was Patrick who told me about masturbation. I guess I forgot to tell you how often I do it now, which is a lot. I don't like to look at pictures. I just close my eyes and dream about a lady I do not know. And I try not to feel ashamed....
One night, I felt so guilty that I promised God that I would never do it again. So, I started using blankets, but then the blankets hurt, so I started using pillows, but then the pillows hurt, so I went back to [the] normal [way].
Page 31. [...and the boy sodomizes the girl while Charlie watches.]
After a few minutes, the boy pushed the girl's head down, and she started to kiss his penis. She was still crying. Finally, she stopped crying because he put his penis in her mouth, and I don't think you can cry in that position. I had to stop watching at that point because I started to feel sick, but it kept going on, and they kept doing other things, and she kept saying "no." Even when I covered my ears, I could still hear her say that.
Page 44. [Charlie watching two of his friends having anal sex with each other.]
When most people left, Brad and Patrick went into Patrick's room.
They had sex for the first time that night.
I don't want to go into detail about it, because it's pretty private stuff, but I will say that Brad assumed the role of the girl in terms of where you put things. I think that's pretty important to tell you. When they were finished, Brad started to cry really hard. He had been drinking a lot. And getting really stoned.
No matter what Patrick did, Brad kept crying. Brad wouldn't even let Patrick hold him, which seems rather sad to me because if I have sex with some, I would want to hold them.
Finally, Patrick just pulled up Brad's pants, and said to him. "Just pretend you're passed out."
Page 159 [This is too weird to describe...]
There was a guy named Carl Burns and everyone called him C.B. And one day C.B. got so drunk at a party that he tried to "fuck" the host's dog.
And there was this guy they called "Action Jack" because supposedly he was caught masturbating at a drunk party. And at every pep rally, the kids would clap and chant, Action Jack...clap clap clap...Action Jack.
Page 160 [A girl who masturbated with a hot dog...]
There were other stories and other names…Sheila, who allegedly masturbated with a hot dog and had to go to the emergency room. The list went on and on.

Fallen Angels
Myers, Walter Dean; Scholastic Inc.
• “cut a baby’s head off.. How the hell do you kill a friggin’ baby?.. Like a trip to friggin’ hell.. protect your ass from muggers and shit.. protect your ass.. started firing the [rifle] in his face. I emptied the clip. I snatched another one.. was no face. Just an angry mass of red flesh.. eyeball dangled from one side of the head.. masses of different-colored flesh. The white parts were the worst. .. tooth, a bit of skull. I vomited.”
• “..catch a social disease.. rot your twinkie off.”
• just because I don’t have my serial number tattoed on my genitals does not mean I’m a fag. You wouldn’t have room for more than 3 numbers anyway..”
• “..fucking each other up.. same shit.. Tortured? They tie them to trees and pull their guts out.. just leave them there.. found them.. still alive and begging for somebody to kill them.”
“dudes collecting ears from dead Congs and wearing them around their necks.. nothing to mess with a Cong once he dead.. cut the mother’s ears off while he still alive and kicking-then you doing something.. let some of these carbon tet fumes out before we’re all high..”

The Things They Carried
O'Brien, Tim; Penguin Books
• “...put his hand on the dead boy’s wrist... used Kiowa’s hunting hatchet to remove the thumb. ... wrapped the thumb in toilet paper and handed it across… there was no blood. Smiling, he kicked the boy’s head, watched the flies scatter....”
• “..a VC nurse, fried by napalm, was a ‘crispy critter’. A Vietnamese baby, which lay nearby, was a ‘roasted peanut.’ “Just a crunchie munchie,” (he) said as he stepped over the body.”
• “ ..came across a baby VC water buffalo .......shot it through the front right knee.... took careful aim and shot off an ear. He shot it in the hindquarters and in the little hump at its back. He shot it twice in the flanks. It wasn’t to kill; it was to hurt. He put the muzzle up against the mouth and shot the mouth away. ...there wasn’t a great deal of pity for the baby water buffalo. .... now it was a question of pain…he shot off the tail…he shot away chunks of meat below the ribs. .... (He) went to automatic. He shot randomly, almost casually, quick little spurts in the belly...”
• “At the girl’s throat was a necklace of human tongues. Elongated and narrow, like pieces of blackened leather, the tongues were threaded along a length of copper wire, one overlapping the next, the tips curled up as if caught in a final shrill syllable.”
• “His one eye was shut and the other was a star-shaped hole. .....hole was yellow and red…the yellow part seemed to be getting wider.... upper lip and gum were gone. The man’s head was cocked at the wrong angle, as if loose at the neck, and the neck was wet with blood.”
• “..remember a little boy with a plastic leg... boy hopped away…War’s a bitch ... One leg, for Chrissake. Some poor fucker ran out of ammo.”
• “…told him he’d best strap down his dick...”
• “.. almost cut me a new asshole..”

Slaughterhouse Five
Vonnegut, Kurt; Bantam Dell Publishing Group
• Get out of the road, you dumb motherfucker.
• ...neat tortures he himself had invented. One of the inventions was sticking a dentist’s drill into a guy’s ear.
• You stake a guy out on an anthill in the desert, see? He’s facing upward, and you put honey all over his balls and pecker, and you cut off his eyelids so he has to stare at the sun till he dies.
• ...picture of a woman attempting sexual intercourse with a Shetland pony. (A man says): What a lucky pony, eh?
• Jesus really was a nobody, and a pain in the neck.
• Fuck my luck.
• ...he was being unfaithful to his wife...persuaded a woman…into the laundry room…then sit up on the gas dryer…she helped Billy get her girdle off...It’s all right, said Billy. He honestly thought it was all right.
• ...gives many war enthusiasts a sort of post-coital satisfaction…the divinely listless loveplay that follows the orgasm of victory.
• Billy was on top of Valencia, making love to her. One result of this act would be the birth of Robert Pilgrim, who would become a problem in high school, but who would then straighten out as a member of the famous Green Berets...Billy made a noise like a small, rusty hinge. He had just empied his seminal vesicles into Valencia, had contributed his share of the Green Beret.
• ...took his pecker out...You sure had a hard-on.
• Montana was naked, and so was Billy, of course. He had a tremendous wang, incidentally. You never know who’ll get one.
• He was drenched in sweat, remembered groggily that his daughter had put him to bed…Billy sniffed. His hot bed smelled like a mushroom cellar. He had had a wet dream

Beloved
Morrison, Tony; Penguin Group
Chapter 1 -- Infanticide, ghosts, sex, and bestiality
- "They were young and so sick with the absence of women they had taken to calves. It took her a year to choose-- a long, tough year of thrashing on pallets eaten up with dreams of her. A year of yearning, when rape seemed the only solitary gift of life."
- "All in their twenties, minus women, fucking cows, dreaming of rape, thrashing on pallets, rubbing their thighs and waiting for the new girl."
- “..my niggers is men every one of em."
- "Ain’t no nigger men. Not if you scared, they ain't. But if you a man yourself, you’ll want your niggers to be men too. I wouldn’t have no nigger men round my wife.”
- "She waited a year. And the Sweet Home men abused cows while they waited with her."
Chapter 2 -- More sex, including bestiality
- "...the new girl they dreamed of at night and fucked cows for at dawn while waiting for her to choose."
- "It was over before they could get their clothes off."
- "Paul D saw the float of her breasts and disliked it, the spread-out, flat roundness of them ..." - "Nothing could be as good as the sex with her Paul D had been imagining ..."
- "And there on top of a mattress on top of the dirt floor of the cabin they coupled for the third time, the first two having been in the tiny cornfield ..."
- "The jump, thought Paul D, from a calf to a girl wasn't all that mighty. Not the leap Halle believed it would be. And taking her in the corn rather than her quarters, a yard away from the cabins of the others who had lost out, was a gesture of tenderness. Halle wanted privacy for her and got public display...they watched the confusion in the tassels in the field below. It had been hard, hard, hard sitting there erect as dogs, watching the corn stalks dance at noon."
Chapter 7 -- More sex, more memories of torture
- "They took my milk"
- "God damn it of two boys with mossy teeth, one sucking on my breast the other holding me down, their book-reading teacher watching and writing it up."
Chapter 9 -- A sermon, more blood, and a homosexual scene between mother and daughter, Sethe starts torturing Beloved, a sex scene with turtles
Chapter 10 -- Torture by forcing men to perform oral sex
- "Kneeling in the mist they waited for the whim of a guard, or two, or three. Or maybe all of them wanted it. Wanted it from one prisoner in particular or none--or all. Breakfast? Want some breakfast, nigger? Yes sir. Hungry nigger? Yes, sir. Here you go. Occasionally a kneeling man chose gunshot in his head as the price, maybe of taking a bit of foreskin with him to Jesus....Convinced he was next, Paul D retched...the engaged one decided to skip the new man for the time being lest his pants and shoes got soiled by nigger puke."

The Saga of District 214

Lions vs. Christians: Lions Win -- Commentary by Sandy Rios after May 25, 2006 Board Meeting

Culture Campaign Reports from the Board Meeting:
Saga of a Long Board Meeting
Closing Statements by Board Members

Highlights of District 214 Public Comments

Daily Herald Prints More Public Comment (scroll down)
Keep sending your Letters to the Editor to feedback@dailyherald.com

District 214 Schools include:
Buffalo Grove High School
Wheeling High School
John Hersey School
Prospect High School
Rolling Meadows High School
Elk Grove High School

Pornography: 'I Know it When I See It'
Daily Herald Whitewashes Books by Ignoring the EXCERPTS
Too Offensive to Print, You Say, Why not Link to Culture Campaign?!


The After Effect -- Latest Mainstream News:
* Chicago Tribune's Math Lesson:  Christians + Internet = Light into Darkened Schools
* Daily Herald, Why Don't You Clue in Your Readers: Who's from Maryland?
* Sun-Times Columnist, Wrongly Believing the Majority of Meeting Attendees Were on his Side, Tells Pinney to Mind Only her own Children  (See 2nd Item)
* Board and Administration Agree, Opt-Out Policy Unworkable With Errant Educators
* Pinney's Action Invigorates Teacher Requirement to Inform Parents Directly of 'Controversial Issues' [Editor's Note: With this increased awareness, and thus parental involvement, teachers will be forced to either prepare dual curricula, or simply drop the 'controversial issues.']
* District 214 Controversy Spills Into DuPage County

Gleaned from News Reports:  School Board Abandons Children to Ravenous Wolves -- Errant Educators Herd Wayward Flock to Avidly Testify at Their Own Trial (Read all about it below)

May 27, 2006:
* Chicago Tribune
* Chicago Sun-Times
* Washington Time (UPI)

May 26, 2006:
* Daily Herald

* Chicago Tribune Updated May 27, 2006
* CBS TV Channel 2
* ABC TV Channel 7
* Chicago Sun-Times
* NBC TV Channel 5
* Pioneer Press

Post your opinion on the Chicago Tribune blog:
Choose Blog #1 OR Blog #2 (or post on both!)

Newspaper Articles, TV, Mainstream Media (leading up to showdown):

* Daily Herald: Parents Should Have NO Say in Public Education -- If Parents Don't Like it, Opt out of the Schools, not Just the Books!
* Question to Chicago Tribune: Should Schools Teach IN THE GUTTER or Teach OF it from Above, and Guide Youth to a Higher Place than Their Tendencies Would Lead?
* Beware of 'The Village'- Errant Educators Molding Young Minds
* Shepherds or Sheep? Hey, Everyone Else is Teaching It (so they claim)
* UPI Joins Media Spin Club: Virtually Every News Report Inaccurately Labels it "Banning Books" AND The Washington Times
* Chicago Tribune Theme: Pornography in Small Doses is OK for Kids
* CBS-TV2 Report (includes video):  Board Member Says the "More You Talk About It [Pornography], the Better Off You Are"
* School Board President Predicts Vote to Maintain Pornography in Curriculum
* Daily Herald Labels Board Member a "Reflexive Conservative," While Defending "Highly Qualified Educators" Forcing Pornography on Kids
* Illinois Cook County District 214 Educators Insist on Teaching Pornography

Commentary:

* Sandy Rios (Part 2) "Bitter for Sweet - Read Them and Weep" Moody Radio Chicago, WMBI 90.1 FM (May 25, 2006)  Click HERE to Download MP3 of Sandy's Commentary
* Sandy Rios (Part 1) Reporting from the Field for Moody Radio Chicago, WMBI 90.1 FM (May 18, 2006).  Click HERE to Download MP3 of Sandy's Report

* Students' Comments on Petition (to maintain pornographic curriculum) 'Says It All!' (view the signers to read their comments)
* Liberal Blog Makes Fun of Wholesomeness
* Chicago-area Teacher's Association President Blogs Against Pinney, Yet from a Position of Ignorance
* In Search of Intelligent Life -- Are any Liberal Bloggers Informed of What They Write?
* Conservative Blog Seeks Logical Dialogue
* Ouch! Board Meeting Attendee Asks 'Where Were the Christian Pastors That Night!?'

Daily Herald Letters to the Editor:

*  Liberals' Arguments Heavy on Name-calling and Generalizations, Lacking in Logic (these letter writers don't appear to be familiar with the text in these books -- not surprising, since the Daily Herald won't print the excerpts)

EDITOR'S NOTE:  The Daily Herald has printed ONLY pro-pornography letters, yet the Culture Campaign mailbox shows ten-to-one SUPPORT of Pinney, and these respondents are sending the same comments to the Daily Herald.

* Daily Herald Prints Readers' Responses from BOTH Sides of the Issue (this time)

District 214 Taxpayers:  Contact YOUR Board Members!!  District Website Info

William Dussling, President bill.dussling@d214.org
Alva Kreutzer, Vice President alva.kreutzer@d214.org
William M. "Bill" Blaine, Jr. bill.blaine@d214.org
Lenore Gonzales Bragaw lenore.bragaw@d214.org
Miriam (Mimi) Cooper mimi.cooper@d214.org
Leslie Pinney leslie.pinney@d214.org
Robert Zimmanck bob.zimmanck@d214.org