Adding Injury to Insults
A kindergarten student in Houston, Texas, was suspended for a day because he called another student a “poo poo head.” His parents, Randy and Tammy Harris, agreed with the suspension, but then during his first grade year he came home with a book from the school library called The Adventures of Super Duper Diaper Baby, in which a baby with super powers battles a giant mutated piece of ...well... poo poo. “I think it’s gross. It’s disgusting,” said Tammy Harris. “Who wants to talk about feces?” Furthermore, she was upset because the book used the very phrase her son was suspended for using. “And they’re kicking my son out for it? Are they kidding me?” she asked. The parents met with school officials to complain, and after three appeals, the book was banned from the school’s library. (MS/KHOU Houston) ...They’re all a bunch of poo poo heads.Original Publication Date: 14 August 2011
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.
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