Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[Razgovory]

"Look, I understand that insanity is part of your identity, trust me I know, and I'm not asking you to give that up.  But could you just hold it in check for 20 minutes while you get a vaccine?  It would really help the rest of us out."

[Valmy]

Running out of town on a rail...endorsing cancel culture I see.

[Syt]

Hey Valmy didn't know that Austin was such a den of debauchery?



The linked article contains a link to the letter that seems to have sparked this "outrage."

Dear Ms. Howe,

I sure enjoyed reading your article today -
How To Stop Critical Race Theory In Your Local Schools: Advice From A School Board Member

We are having issues with our school district in Austin, TX - Leander Independent School District.

Unfortunately, our school board members support CRT and we have been writing letters about the sexually graphic books the language arts curriculum director chose as part of the new culturally diverse equity program and it is falling on deaf ears.

It seems to me this type of content should be illegal to give to minors.
The content of these books are horribly dark and disturbing and include explicit, graphic sexual content such as:

Masturbation
Abortion
Adult/Minor Sexual Relationships
Gang Rape
Rape
Child Rape
Molestation
Substance Abuse
Sexual Abuse
Physical Abuse

These books are NOT academically challenging books that students preparing for college should be reading in school.

Here are a couple of excerpts. What do you think? Is this appropriate for our public schools to be assigning as required language arts curriculum for students 13 years-old to 18 years-old without parental consent?

What We Saw – by Aaron Hartzler - 9th Grade English –Lexi Level 820 (5th Grade reading level)
My finger is trembling as I hold it over the silver track pad. I swallow hard, and click. As the image springs to life, the person holding the camera jumps over the white leather sofa arm onto the couch. Stacey is lying on the chaise that sticks out from the opposite corner of the sectional. Her halter top is missing, but her bra is still on. Her eyes are closed. Dooney is lying next to her, rubbing his hand up and down her stomach, cupping her breasts, laughing. Deacon pulls up her skirt as Kyle leans in and out of the frame over the back of the couch with a red plastic cup and shouts, "Buccaneers!" Dooney buries his face in her breasts, shaking his head side to side and making a motorboat noise with his lips. He slides a hand down her underwear. Dude is she drunk or dead? I recognize the squeak of Randy's voice, his words slurring from behind the camera. He must be filming this with his phone. Greg is there, hooting and pushing Randy, the camera jerking and shaking. I gasp as I pan around the room. There are so many people there. I catch a glimpse of the Tracies, one of the making out with LeRon, the other sitting in an overstuffed chair with a glassy glaze. She looks stoned out of her mind. Some areas are more well lit than others, but the footage is remarkably clear. As Randy swings the camera back to the couch, he gets closer. Dooney is pulling down Stacey's underwear with one hand, the fingers of his other hand already inside her. Randy shouts and giggles hysterically, "Oh my God, Dude!" Greg leans over the couch again, smacking lightly at Stacey's face. "Yo! Anybody home in there?"
When Randy spins the camera back around, Dooney is already on top of Stacey, the belt of his jeans flapping against the side of the couch as he pushes his hips into her. She grunts and moans, eyes stilled closed.

The story continues on, each of the boys graphically taking their turn with her.
Teenage sex, gang rape, videoed gang rape passed around the school and teenage drinking and drug use

Red at the Bone – by Jacqueline Woodson – 11th grade English – Lexi level not available
He waited for Iris to tell him she loved him back, but instead, she reached inside his pants, then into his underwear, and wrapped her hand around him. He bit down hard on his bottom lip, closed his eyes and waited for what came next. He was terrified of what came next. He had only done this to himself. His own Vaselined hand in the bathroom, with the door locked and water running in case he cried out to the images of girls he had only seen fully clothed reimagined naked playing in his head. He had imagined Iris naked, but no matter how tightly he closed his eyes, no matter how fast he moved his hand, her body was never clear. It was though his own imagination waxed over when he tried to see her. Lying beside her, her hand moving slowly, his fingers moving up her belly and beneath her bra, he was grateful that she felt so surprising beneath her clothes. So perfect. When he opened his eyes again, Iris was smiling, that sloe-eyed smile that scared the hell out of him and made him love her more. She pulled his pants and underwear down below his knees, and because he didn't know what else to do, he closed his eyes and let her. Praying silently that she'd stop. Hoping that she wouldn't.

The story continues and describes in detail them having sex, smoking weed and eventually getting pregnant

My Life As a Part-Time Indian – by Arnold Spirit Jr. – 8th & 9th grade English - Lexi level 600 (3rd Grade reading level)
Most guys, no matter what age, get excited about curves and circles. But not me. Don't get me wrong. I like girls and their curves. And I really like women and their curvier curves. I spend hours in the bathroom with a magazine that has one thousand pictures of naked movie stars. Naked woman + right hand = happy happy joy joy Yep, that's right, I admit that I masturbate. I'm proud of it. I'm good at it. I'm ambidextrous. If there were a Professional Masturbators League, I'd be drafted number one and make millions of dollars. And maybe you're thinking, "Well, you really shouldn't be talking about masturbation in public." Well, tough, I'm going to talk about it because EVERYBODY does it. And EVERYBODY likes it. And if God hadn't wanted us to masturbate, then he wouldn't have given us thumbs. So I thank God for my thumbs.

The book has physical abuse to a parent and child, peer to peer sex, substance abuse and a ton of foul language.

In the Dream House – by Carmen Maria Machado – 12th grade English - Lexi level is 600 (3rd Grade reading level
"A week after you get back from Savannah, you are fucking on your bed and you come and she says, "I love you." You are both sweaty; the silicone strap on is still in your body. When dating men, you always loved feeling a cock soften inside of you afterward; now you pant on her chest and slide off and it springs back to where it was, slick and erect but spent just the same." "After this, you ask her to talk to you in a low, raspy stream while she fucks you, and she does; switching effortlessly between English and French, muttering about her cock and how it's filling you up, pushing her hand over your face and grabbing the architecture of your jaw to turn it this way and that. She shaves her cunt smooth, and it glows like the inside of a conch shell. She loves wearing a harness; you suck her off that way and she comes like it's real, bucking and lifting off of the mattress."

The story is sexually graphic with the main character describing her history of sexual abuse. It also has an adult/minor sexual relationship with a pastor and at no point in the store is the inappropriateness or illegality of this relationship mentioned. This book uses a ton of foul language. 

Nowhere Girls – by Amy Reed – 12th grade English – Lexi Level is 750 (4th Grade reading level)
"...a very different girl closes her eyes and let's go, feels the boys head between her legs, painting pleasure on her body with his tongue, just like she taught him."
"Yo freshman nobody. Got her so drunk she couldn't say no. Kinda messy and mostly just laid there but busting a nut is busting a nut."
"Yo chubby girl from school....she got drunk at a party and told me she'd had a crush on me since 6th grade. Fat girls are so easy. Mostly a pity fuck on my [art. She was so grateful."
"I was at a party...There was this punch, and you couldn't even taste the alcohol, so I had no idea how much I was drinking. And then these three really cute guys started talking to me, and I was grateful, you know...I though they were being nice. I didn't know something was wrong until it was too late. He opened the door and told me to get in the car. His voice wasn't nice anymore. He told the others what to do. Only tow of them ended up doing it. The third ran off...I remember everything. I wasn't that drunk. I wish I was. Then I'd have an excuse. I could have fought back maybe, I could have screamed. But it was like I was frozen. I just laid there. I couldn't move. I saw everything. I felt everything. Shit, I can still feel them on top of me. The weigh. They were so heavy. I can smell them. Their BO. The beer on their breath.

The story is sexually graphic, has rape, gang rape, derogatory descriptions of sexual conquests, substance abuse. And, of course, it is full of foul language.

Out of the Darkness – by Ashley Hope Perez – 9th grade English – Lexi level 660 (3rd Grade reading level)
"Shh," he said. He took one of her hands in his and squeezed it. "Come on over here." He pulled her to her feet, close to him. He shifted in his pajamas, and the part of him that made him a man stuck out, reddish purple and frightening. She had never seen one before except on a baby. This was different. He lifted her hand to his mouth and licked it. Then he lowered her hand down and closed it around the hardness. His hand moved hers. His left hand gripped her shoulder, pressing her head tight against the hard, flat plane of his stomach. She watched her hand move back and forth like it didn't belong to her. In the distance, she heard the train pass. A moment later, the thing leaped. Henry's whole body shuddered, and a hot mess lay across her palm and between her fingers. Henry wiped himself quickly with a handkerchief. Then, never letting go of her shoulder, he urged her toward the door. "Come on," he said once it was open. He walked her to the bathroom and then guided her hand to the sink. "There," he said, rinsing her hand and patting it dry. "all better." He walked back to his room like he had merely gone to get a glass of water. In the morning, when her mother asked her to come help her in the kitchen.....
Naomi lay as still as she could. She knew he was standing there, looking down at her. Then the footsteps went back toward the door. She waited a moment, and when she thought surely he had gone back to bed, she opened her eyes and gulped in a breath. Henry was staring right at her. He grinned, "You thought you fooled me, but I fooled you," he said. "I knew you were awake." He closed the door behind him and locked it. He had put locks on all the bedroom doors the week before. When Estella asked him why, he said simply, "It's how a house should be." She hadn't protested. Henry came to the side of her bed and pulled back the covers. Naomi sat up quickly and scrambled backward.
After awhile she heard Henry snoring. She crept to the bathroom, locked the door, and undressed. She scrubbed everywhere he had touched her.

When she is older he has her little 8yo brother tie her boyfriend to a tree and violently rapes her making them both watch. He then unties the boyfriend and kills him in front of them. Lots of racial slurs in this book.

Here are just a few more examples, there are many, many more:

Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sanchez – 9th Grade English - Lexi Level 730 (4th Grade reading level) – blasphemies against the Catholic faith and derogatory statements about Jesus and Christianity. An adult raping a minor is described in great detail, there is drug use, abortion, attempted suicide, and graphic sex. The district spent $26k of taxpayer money on this one.
Kiss Number 8 by Af Venable Colleen – 10thGrade English - Pictures of Christ on the cross with characters in the pews having sexual thoughts of Christ on the cross and judging the altar boys for their looks - complete blasphemy and insulting to those who believe in God. This book is a graphic novel with Sex, Substance Abuse and Foul language.
Honor Girl – by Maggie Thrash – 10th Grade English - Lexi Level 400 (2nd Grade reading level) - A 15 year-old girl goes to the same Christian Summer Camp every year. This summer she has her first sexualexperience with her 19-year-old female camp counselor. ---- It doesn't matter that the camp counselor is female, what matters is it is ILLEGAL to have sex with a minor and this book is written at a second grade reading level.

Porn addiction is one of the fastest growing addictions in the country and it is as addictive as crack cocaine. Unlike other addictive substances, pornographic images can stay in the brain indefinitely. So why is LISD putting porn in their language arts curriculum?  - https://parentsaware.info/

Sexually Explicit Texts Negatively Affect Teen Minds – Our society provides our children with enough sexually charged, profane messages. They don't need it as required reading at school.
Numerous studies on the use of graphic material by students indicate negative psychological effects. The authors of the study strongly suggested that parents needed to restrict their children from seeing or reading sexual content in movies and books.

Dr. Sandra Stotsky Professor emerita in the Dept of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas states that less challenging books are read today and it shows as reading scores continue to fall around the country. She further states that this new curriculum of contemporary fiction is heavy on explicit content, very light on complexity and is creating a generation of students better versed in the mechanics of rape than of sentence structure, vocabulary or literary value."

Any ideas on how we can stop this? It should be illegal. Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,

A very concerned parent of a child in the LISD
https://www.teachparentalrights.com

[Syt]

Meanwhile, in my day many school read (or watched the movie) Christiane F., about a 13 year old girl who became addicted to heroin and became an underage prostitute. (obviously, this was meant as a warning against drug use, and I imagine many if not most of the above stories are intended in a similar aspect)

[Valmy]

I like how they say it is Austin, Texas a debauched Democratically run city but then have it be Leander ISD, a suburban school district in the traditionally Republican Williamson County. I guess the Republican propaganda people don't know much geography, even in red states.

Anyway this is just the same old thing they have been complaining about forever. Dirty books in school. Your grandkids will deal with it just like your grandparents dealt with it: probably not reading the assignments anyway and reading the cliff notes/wikipedia page.

The tiny bit of Austin that is in Williamson County is served by Leander ISD it is true, but the city government of Austin has nothing to do with what the school board of LISD does.

[Valmy]

Meanwhile, in my day many school read (or watched the movie) Christiane F., about a 13 year old girl who became addicted to heroin and became an underage prostitute. (obviously, this was meant as a warning against drug use, and I imagine many if not most of the above stories are intended in a similar aspect)

I hear pornographic images are more addictive than heroin. Even in text form. Text images.

[Syt]

Leander ISD

ISD stands for Imperial Star Destroyer, right?

[Syt]

Meanwhile, in my day many school read (or watched the movie) Christiane F., about a 13 year old girl who became addicted to heroin and became an underage prostitute. (obviously, this was meant as a warning against drug use, and I imagine many if not most of the above stories are intended in a similar aspect)

I hear pornographic images are more addictive than heroin. Even in text form. Text images.

Well, the book has that too. There's even been a new Amazon Prime series based on it.

I found Die Letzten Kinder von Schewenborn (last children of Schewenborn) more difficult to read as an 11 year old - it deals with the aftermath of nuclear war in a small town in Germany. Radiation sickness, miscarriages and deformations abound!

[Valmy]

Leander ISD

ISD stands for Imperial Star Destroyer, right?

Man I wish. My time in AISD would have been much cooler. But unfortunately it just stands for Independent School District.

[Valmy]

Meanwhile, in my day many school read (or watched the movie) Christiane F., about a 13 year old girl who became addicted to heroin and became an underage prostitute. (obviously, this was meant as a warning against drug use, and I imagine many if not most of the above stories are intended in a similar aspect)

I hear pornographic images are more addictive than heroin. Even in text form. Text images.

Well, the book has that too. There's even been a new Amazon Prime series based on it.

I found Die Letzten Kinder von Schewenborn (last children of Schewenborn) more difficult to read as an 11 year old - it deals with the aftermath of nuclear war in a small town in Germany. Radiation sickness, miscarriages and deformations abound!

My God! It is a wonder you all did not become underage prostitutes to feed your porn addictions.

[The Brain]

What are the Lexi Belle levels?

[Josquius]

Err.... Yes?

Really not getting the logic on this one.
Do they seriously believe free means not paid for by anyone in any way?

[Tamas]

Err.... Yes?

Really not getting the logic on this one.
Do they seriously believe free means not paid for by anyone in any way?

Not wanting to look like I am defending these people, but i would prefer these were called "state funded" in common discourse because there ARE people approaching such things as nobody is actually paying for them.

[Valmy]

Obviously not people weighed down under Texas property taxes

[Syt]

A classic.