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By: Parents censor Anne Frank. Miep would be disappointed. | Vicki Boykis

Parents censor Anne Frank. Miep would be disappointed. | Vicki Boykis — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:39:48 +0000

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uberVU - social comments — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:38:34 +0000

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By: Angelia Sparrow

Angelia Sparrow — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:18:47 +0000

Alas, Marianna, it’s not going away. The kids who were the biggest party animals in high school have all grown up and turned into the hyper-religious repressive parents. I watched this happen in my own HS class.

It never ends.

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By: Jenna

Jenna — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:21:52 +0000

If you want absolute control of the material your child(ren) experience, homeschool them.

If you cannot homeschool them, try to find your flavor of private school OR begin an education co-op with like minded parents.

The public schools exist to educate every child according to a basic set of facts and information in order to make them into productive adults. Productive adults DO need information on how their bodies function and how to protect themselves. If this is something you wish to censor from your child, your only options should be the first two listed above. You should not be able to hijack the educations of hundreds or thousands of children just because you are squeamish about “naughty” parts.

This reminds me of my time student teaching 3rd grade. One of the girls in class came to us in tears because one of the boys had touched her “nasty.”. We had to have the counselor, nurse, and an assistant principal help us to understand that her parents had taught her to call her entire vaginal area her “nasty.”. Her younger brother, in kindegarten, had been taught to call his penis a “touch me not.”. This was the worst I’ve seen.

By: Mireille

Mireille — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:43:41 +0000

Have they pulled the dictionaries yet for having the word “vagina” in it? I mean, if it is, I hope it says “see ‘Hoo-ha’”. And under “hoo-ha” the definition could be “what girls have where the penis should be”.

By: Ms.Bliss

Ms.Bliss — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:32:16 +0000

It’s alright for children to read about mass genocide. Reading about vaginas on the other hand would be way too scary.

By: BeckySharper

BeckySharper — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:03:33 +0000

@marianna: You’re right–Otto Frank originally removed some passages from the diary about Anne’s sexual awakening, as well as some that were critical of her mother and talked about tensions in her parent’s marriage. Otto Frank gave the missing pages to the head of the Anne Frank Foundation before he died. Some legal wrangling followed, but most editions published since 2001 now include that material.

By: Marianna

Marianna — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:41:03 +0000

woops, nevermind, it talks about the old vs. new edition in the news stories.

By: Marianna

Marianna — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:38:50 +0000

While I find this totally appalling, the optimist in me wants to hope that this sort of thing happens rarely and the only reason we’re hearing about it is because of the 24 hours news cycle we have these days. Even so, I hope the other parents called bullshit on this.

Also, I remember that the edition of Anne Frank’s Diary that was used for a long time left out a lot of stuff about Anne discovering her sexuality, which her father didn’t want published. I think the newer edition came out in 1999/2000 or around there. Can anyone back me up on this?