Teach your kids that bullying is unacceptable behavior. Anytime. Anywhere. Anybody.
William Baer, the father of a Gilford, NH High school student was arrested at a school board meeting for causing a disturbance. This is a video from New Hampshire’s right wing WMUR-TV.
Many people claim that the passages from the book 19 Minutes by NH writer Joodi Picoult are pornographic I respectfully disagree. My personal opinion is that these passages give high school students enough information to have no doubt in their minds what is being talked about. I feel that this dark novel about ten students being shot and killed by one of their fellow students in a necessary teaching aid and may help prevent future school shootings. This is a book about behavior. There are consequences to bad behavior. Here’s a list of school shootings from the Wikipedia.
Here are the objectionable, to some parents passages from the book. All of them. If you think high school students aren’t already thinking these thoughts or acting on them, you need to get out into the real world.
From the book 19 minutes by Jodi Picoult?:
. . . “Matt shifted his weight and came down on top of her again, only this time there was more burning, more pressure. “Ow” she whimpered, and Matt hesitated.
“I don’t want to hurt you,” he said.
She turned her head way. “Just do it,” Josie said, and Matt pushed his hips flush with hers. It was the kind of pain that — even though she was expecting it — made her cry out.
Matt mistook that for passion”. . . .
“Josie held her hand up to Matt’s, a giant paw.
“Look how tiny you are, compared to me,” Matt said. “It’s amazing I don’t kill you.” He shifted then still inside her, so that she felt the bulk of his weight. Then he put his hand up to her throat.
“Because,” he said, “I could.”
He pressed just the slightest bit, pressure on her windpipe. Not enough to rob her of air, but certainly to scatter speech.
“Don’t.” Josie managed.
Matt stared down at her, puzzled. “Don’t what?” he said, and when he started to move in her again, Josie was sure she had heard it all wrong.”
“And God, did anything feel better than having Matt inside her? Josie shifted just a little, felt her body adjust to him, and her legs trembled.”
