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Wednesday, May 1, 2013

The Diary of Anne Frank: Too Explicit?

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
In Michigan, Gail Horalek, a mother of a 7th-grade girl at Meads Mill Middle School, has some issues with the district's curriculum. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl was a part of her daughter's language arts class, and Gail thinks there's something quite wrong with that. She states, "It's pretty graphic, and it's pretty pornographic for seventh-grade boys and girls to be reading." Furthermore, she insists, "It's inappropriate for a teacher to be giving this material out to the kids when its really the parents' job to give the students this information." In response to her anger, Gail Horalek filed a complaint with the school district, and she proposes that the diary is an inappropriate version of Jewish families hiding from the Nazis during the Holocaust. 

The Diary of Anne Frank has been a frequent visitor in classrooms all over the United State since it was first published in 1947. Does this mean that Gail Horalek's attempt to protect her child is too extreme? Or, should America's middle school classroom's reconsider what they use for their curriculum? 

Watch Gail Horalek's interview with her local news station here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/29/anne-frank-diary-pornographic-7th-grade-michigan-parent_n_3180134.html

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