Here’s an assignment I never had in parochial school:
Author J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, is an American classic that has been required high school reading for decades.
The book is has been known as a “coming of age book,” but it’s also remembered for its use of the “F” word.
“My teacher decided that it would be best to have the students go home and say in private the phrase ‘F-U,’ 10,000 times in different dialogues and different ways and tones and stuff, so that we’d become desensitized to it and wouldn’t have to worry about it,” said Chantilly High School student Jeff Daybell.
Most of the students in English teacher Rich Tucker’s class weren’t bothered, but Daybell — a Mormon — said he was offended.
Oversensitivity to profanity–that’s a real problem these days.
Via Cam Edwards.