So Apparently "50 Shades Of Gray" Isn't Appropriate Reading In A 9th Grade English Class

[Initech]

A Philadelphia mother wants her son’s high school teacher fired after he bought the teen the novel Fifty Shades of Grey for in-class reading.

Maya Ladson says she was shocked to find a copy of the racy read in her 14-year-old’s book bag back on March 9. That shock turned to outrage when she found out how he got the book.

“The minute I found out about it, it raised concern,” the mother told NBC10.com Thursday. “This is not OK to me. This is major.”

Ladson's son, who is a 9th grade student at Eastern University Academy Charter School in the East Falls section of Philadelphia, asked for and was given the book by his teacher and adviser Philip Aidoo.

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Teacher-Buys-Student-Fifty-Shades-of-Grey-for-Reading-Class-205837661.html

[Warren DeMontague]

1. Isn't the writing supposed to be awful?

Maybe they're teaching it as an example of how not to write.

[Tien1985]

2. The book is garbage

But the mom is overreacting, in my opinion. She needs to have a talk with her son about what she feels is appropriate and there needs to be consequences for trying to go around her authority (for the son). It says straight out he got books for other students and they were all appropriate, it also says he is generally a math, not literature, teacher. Absolutely stupid mistake, but not worth firing someone over.

[MADem]

3. Charter school, eh? Wonder what's in that charter? Pole dancing for phys ed? nt

[mainer]

4. The teacher bought the kid a book with his own money, not knowing its content

That is not a firing offense, especially since the book is on all the bestseller lists, and is published by a mainstream publisher. He's a male math teacher, for god's sake -- it's very likely he had no idea what was in it.

That said, the book is HORRIBLY written. For the crime of its bad writing alone, kids shouldn't be exposed to it!