By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-22 02:45:40 | Updated at 2024-09-30 05:30:45
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‘Outraged’ teen drops out of Wake County public high school, citing disturbing reading assignment
Carolina Journal ^ | 9/19/2024 | Brianna Kraemer
Posted on 09/21/2024 7:10:35 PM PDT by simpson96
A teenage girl slammed the Wake County Public School System during a board meeting on Tuesday and announced her departure from the school district after she was forced to read graphic sexual material in her English class.
During a Tuesday Wake County Board of Education meeting, a 10th-grade student recounted her move to North Carolina just three months ago. She enrolled in Athens Drive Magnet High School and told the board that she was very excited about the opportunity, until last Friday when her teacher assigned the class to read a story independently.
“There was a part in this story that made me feel very uncomfortable, and I looked around and saw the same expression on other students’ faces,” she said, reading the story aloud.
The story centered around two cousins and used vulgar language depicting sexual acts. The excerpt appears to be from “Tomorrow is too far” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The 15-year-old girl read the description to the Board:
[video at link]
The class then came back together to discuss the reading and answer questions. The student said during her public testimony that she went home that day and told her parents, who were “as outraged as I was,” she said.
“I should not have graphic, incestual, sexual content taught to me in my classes,” she stated. “I am deeply bothered and deeply disappointed. I have decided to leave Athens Drive High School because I should not have to deal with pornographic, incestual, sexual conduct taught to me in my classes.”
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1 posted on 09/21/2024 7:10:35 PM PDT by simpson96
To: simpson96
There will be no accountability for the sexual pervert who chose to become a teacher in order to become stimulated by pushing the sexual perversion onto young teens.
2 posted on 09/21/2024 7:16:56 PM PDT by Theo (FReeping since 1997 ... drain the swamp.)
To: simpson96
3 posted on 09/21/2024 7:23:29 PM PDT by combat_boots
To: simpson96
Yuck. I thought “Thistlefoot” was bad. Spring Mills High, Berkeley County, 10th grade English, Spring 2024.
The Hope scholarship is taking off like wildfire here.
Dunno about other states, but in Virginia kids can sit for their GED at 16. Somehow we were never informed of this. Costs $200, prolly gone up since last I checked.
4 posted on 09/21/2024 7:42:33 PM PDT by SovereignVA
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