[Infowarrior] - Paging Mrs. Lovejoy...again

[Richard Forno]

Okay - whenever I say 'Paging Mrs Lovejoy" (PML) please take that to  
mean reference to something totally idiotic and/or overprotective that  
makes news allegedly because it's in the best interest of children.   
After a while I get sick of trying to come up with new snarkyness to  
describe such lunacy.  -rf

School system in Va. won't teach version of Anne Frank book
By Michael Alison Chandler
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, January 29, 2010; B03

Culpeper County public school officials have decided to stop assigning  
a version of Anne Frank's diary, one of the most enduring symbols of  
the atrocities of the Nazi regime, after a parent complained that the  
book includes sexually explicit material and homosexual themes.
"The Diary of a Young Girl: the Definitive Edition," which was  
published on the 50th anniversary of Frank's death in a concentration  
camp, will not be used in the future, said James Allen, director of  
instruction for the 7,600-student system. The school system did not  
follow its own policy for handling complaints about instructional  
materials, Allen said.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/28/AR2010012804001_pf.html