This required reading is too steamy for students!
The principals union is calling on the Department of Education to pull Virginia Euwer Wolff’s novel “Make Lemonade” from the Common Core curriculum for eighth-graders because it’s too sexually explicit.
Ernie Logan, president of the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators, sent a memo to its members Friday warning them that the book “contains passages that many will consider inappropriate for middle-school students.”
Many are shocked that the DOE vetted and approved a book — about a 14-year-old girl who baby-sits for a 17-year-old single mother with two children from two different fathers — which features passages that could rival erotica novel “Fifty Shades of Grey.”
A Department of Education spokesperson stood behind the book, saying: “The novel has been highly recommended for middle-school grades.”
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