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<blockquote data-quote="Poutsforboys" data-source="post: 2472537" data-attributes="member: 774519">...below did the right thing? http://vogueristaentertainment.com/2010/12/09/new-hampshire-parents-pull-child-from-school-over-book-that-refers-to-jesus-as-wine-guzzling-vagrant-and-socialist/&quot;A New Hampshire couple has pulled their son out of his local high school after the teen was assigned a book that refers to Jesus Christ as a “wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist.”Aimee Taylor says her oldest son, 16-year-old Jordan Henderson, was required to read “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America,” this fall for Bedford High School’s personal finance class.The book is a first-person accountof author Barbara Ehrenreich’s attempts to make ends meet while working minimum wage jobs in Florida, Maine and Minnesota.But in addition to taking aim at the idea of the American Dream, and arguing for a higher minimum wage, Taylor says Ehrenreich also takes aim at Christians and other groups in the book and uses foul language — all of which made Jordan unhappy.“He started making some comments about the book and I said, ‘Well, just read it. You know you have to read it for school,’” Taylor told FoxNews.com. “But finally he came home one day and said ‘I’m not reading this book, I’m done reading this book, I am not reading any more of this book,’ and he slammed it down and said, ‘This is junk!’”Taylor asked her son to show her what was so bad about the book and after he pointed out a few controversial excerpts she decided to read it in full.“I finished the book that night, I could not put it down because I was just mortified by the take on this book as well as the language, and the Jesus Christian bashing was unbelievable to me, and that it was in our school was just amazing to me,” she said.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Poutsforboys, post: 2472537, member: 774519"] ...below did the right thing? http://vogueristaentertainment.com/2010/12/09/new-hampshire-parents-pull-child-from-school-over-book-that-refers-to-jesus-as-wine-guzzling-vagrant-and-socialist/ "A New Hampshire couple has pulled their son out of his local high school after the teen was assigned a book that refers to Jesus Christ as a “wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist.” Aimee Taylor says her oldest son, 16-year-old Jordan Henderson, was required to read “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America,” this fall for Bedford High School’s personal finance class. The book is a first-person account of author Barbara Ehrenreich’s attempts to make ends meet while working minimum wage jobs in Florida, Maine and Minnesota. But in addition to taking aim at the idea of the American Dream, and arguing for a higher minimum wage, Taylor says Ehrenreich also takes aim at Christians and other groups in the book and uses foul language — all of which made Jordan unhappy. “He started making some comments about the book and I said, ‘Well, just read it. You know you have to read it for school,’” Taylor told FoxNews.com. “But finally he came home one day and said ‘I’m not reading this book, I’m done reading this book, I am not reading any more of this book,’ and he slammed it down and said, ‘This is junk!’” Taylor asked her son to show her what was so bad about the book and after he pointed out a few controversial excerpts she decided to read it in full. “I finished the book that night, I could not put it down because I was just mortified by the take on this book as well as the language, and the Jesus Christian bashing was unbelievable to me, and that it was in our school was just amazing to me,” she said." [/QUOTE]

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