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Teacher flunks Hysterical Parents 101

Posted by Fired Fred on September 20, 2007 4:05 PM
I know I would have liked having a teacher who assigned edgy graphic novels as reading material.

Not everyone feels quite the same way, which is why Nate Fisher had to quit his English teacher job...
The book, one of a series of comic book novels by Daniel Clowes, is called "Eightball #22." It includes references to rape, various sex acts and murder, as well as images of a naked woman, and a peeping tom watching a woman in the shower.

"It’s not even like a gray area," the father said. "It’s clearly over the line."

He said Fisher gave the student the book almost three weeks ago to make up for a summer reading assignment. The book is not part of the school’s regular curriculum.
I'll give him an A for taste and an F for handing Eightball #22 to a 14 year old girl. The parents sound like some seriously joyless people. If they think they're being shocked now, wait until their princess arrives on a college campus for her first Rush Week.

Image courtesy of Fantagraphics Books
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