{"id":222664,"date":"2010-01-24T10:49:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T15:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a805dae0970b"},"modified":"2010-01-24T10:49:06","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T15:49:06","slug":"oral-sex-definition-prompts-school-district-to-pull-dictionaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/222664","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Oral sex&#8217; definition prompts school district to pull dictionaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A school district in Riverside County has pulled the Merriam-Webster&#8217;s 10th edition dictionary from school shelves because it includes the term &quot;oral sex.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>The Menifee Union School District took the action last week after a parent complained about the dictionary. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pe.com\/localnews\/menifee\/stories\/PE_News_Local_W_sdictionary22.414bdf0.html\">The Press-Enterprise <\/a>reported that some parents are angry about the move and want the dictionaries returned to classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#8217;s just not age-appropriate,&quot; said school spokeswoman Betti Cadmus told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pe.com\/localnews\/menifee\/stories\/PE_News_Local_W_sdictionary22.414bdf0.html\">the newspaper<\/a>. &quot;It&#8217;s hard to sit and read the dictionary, but we&#8217;ll be looking to find other things of a graphic nature.<span class=\"vitstorybody\"><span class=\"vitstorybody\">&quot;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The school board will decide later whether to return the dictionaries to the classrooms. One board member told the Press-Enterprise that there are probably more objectionable terms in the dictionary.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Shelby Grad<br \/><\/br><span class=\"vitstorybody\"><span class=\"vitstorybody\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A school district in Riverside County has pulled the Merriam-Webster&#8217;s 10th edition dictionary from school shelves because it includes the term &quot;oral sex.&quot; The Menifee Union School District took the action last week after a parent complained about the dictionary. The Press-Enterprise reported that some parents are angry about the move and want the dictionaries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}