Parent files police complaint after teacher reads Ender's Game to pupils

[PeeKnuckle]

A teacher in South Carolina is on adminstrative leave after the parent of a 14-year-old complained that Orson Scott Card's classic novel was 'pornographic'

The parent of a 14-year-old at Schofield Middle School complained to school officials and the police after a teacher at the school reportedly read to his class from the novel. The parent described Ender's Game as "pornographic", local press reported, and complained about its subject matter. Like The Hunger Games, Ender's Game sees teenagers pitting their battle skills against each other. In Card's Hugo and Nebula award-winning story, though, the hero Ender has been recruited for the Battle School, where Earth's most talented children train for future conflict against human's alien enemies, known as the buggers. Despite the violence it describes, Ender's Game is included on the American Library Association's list of the best 100 books for young adults.

The Aiken Standard reported that the teacher had been placed on administrative leave last week while police and school investigations looked into whether he breached school policy – or the law – when reading to his class from Ender's Game and two other novels: Agatha Christie's Curtain: Poirot's Last Case and The Devil's Paintbox by Victoria McKernan, the story of two orphans journeying through the frontier west.

Read on in disbelief

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/mar/23/police-complaint-enders-game

[Kira Onime]

dafuq.....

This is just..... stupid...

[LGWyant]

How much u wanna bet, the f'n parent has never even read the book? But they have no problem letting their kids play gta and watch game of thrones.

[Dateranoth]

Filed by a parent that likely doesn't even monitor their kids Internet usage. Rediculous to do this to a teacher. Much better ways to handle a situation.

[PeeKnuckle]

I don't know how it is in NC, but in CA, if a teacher has a complaint filed against them for personal conduct... they're temporarily suspended (administrative leave) until the matter is investigated. Same thing might be happening here.

My son read Enders Game on his own at about age 14. He read my copy of it, with my permission. He loved the book, and he and I talked about it for hours.

[green grenades]

America is turning into the biggest bunch of puss bags i have ever seen. so basically this parent ****** over the whole class now they are going to have to read some boring *** Shakespeare. boring as fuk.

[Kevnvek]

Yeah it's garbage that someone can just say something about something and punitive measures can be taken without it even being looked into first. It's like there's no common sense filter with people these days. So many just cry foul as soon as they think they're offended, then keep defending their point even if proven wrong, simply because they don't want to sound dumb or be wrong.

Btw. Dubstep turns people into junkies and psychopaths. Have at it, mass media (I wish).

[Avahra]

That is unbelievable. It's not even as if she was reading them a book from the banned list of books, say Catchers Rye that has racial slurs. And to jump straight to sueing the teacher? Seriously, they're a ******* teacher. They're not rolling around naked on ilk sheets covered in money.

[Pogre]

Oh. My. God.

I read Ender's game when I was a kid. Not only did I love it, but survived the pornographic horror pretty much intact as a wholesome human being.

This is so ridiculous that it doesn't deserve the comment I just typed above.

[Siren]

I pity that kid.