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A teacher gave a poem to one of his students that her mother considers wildly inappropriate. You can’t help but wonder whether this is a poem we might all know or whether it’s one the teacher wrote himself and involves Nantucket. It’s one of those situations where someone is either overreacting or someone else is a scuzwad. Hard to tell with no details. Anyone? Teach is suspended, pending an investigation. (Thanks, P!)
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February 28th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
The poem may be explicit, but this news story is not.
I wonder if the word “scrotum” appears in the poem?
February 28th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
Try watching the video beside the text.
February 28th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
I can beat that. I was in grade seven in Southwestern Ontario when the school principal, a really fucked-up ex-nun, decided that the senior students needed some literary CanCon in the classroom. She assigned Irving Layton. I still can’t decide whether she was really that clueless, or really that horny. Nothing happened to the principal, I don’t remember there being any outrage from parents at all (I doubt our parents noticed our homework assignments, or maybe we deliberately kept this one from them) but we got the kind of educating we couldn’t ever have hoped for!
February 28th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
http://www.geocities.com/jywanza1/Howdoyoumakelove.html
February 28th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
Here’s a link to the exact poem mentioned in the video.
http://www.tributetoblackwomen.com/how_makelove.htm
I hope the teacher does get fired, not for lewd conduct but for bad taste. No one should be exposing impressionable minds to this crap and telling them its good poetry. This poem isn’t dirty. It’s just shitty.
February 28th, 2007 at 4:21 pm
Thanks for the links Paul and ZW. I really didn’t want to Google that phrase, knowing the results I’d come up with wouldn’t be *quite* was looking for.
February 28th, 2007 at 9:35 pm
Everybody is terrified of sex. But at least the poem doesn’t mention the word “scrotum.”
Does anyone know why the teacher gave the student this poem? What’s the motivation?
March 1st, 2007 at 1:58 am
Hmmmm….there are other ways of being “out of the box”
perhaps this one didn’t even have a box….not something I would want my sister to read quite yet.