{"id":226115,"date":"2010-01-25T11:13:24","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T16:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0128770e37fd970c"},"modified":"2010-01-25T11:57:47","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T16:57:47","slug":"school-district-gets-heat-for-banning-dictionary-over-oral-sex-definition-what-do-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/226115","title":{"rendered":"School district gets heat for banning dictionary over &#8216;oral sex&#8217; definition. What do you think?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"prod_left\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Merriam-Webster 10th Annual Collegiate Dictionary Eleventh Edition picture\" height=\"160\" id=\"pic_7286026\" src=\"http:\/\/fl2.shopmania.org\/files\/images\/7287\/merriam-webster-10th-annual-collegiate-dictionary-eleventh-edition%7E7286026.jpg\" style=\"margin: 3px; float: left;\" title=\"Merriam-Webster 10th Annual Collegiate Dictionary Eleventh Edition picture\" width=\"160\"><\/img><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a7ff41ff970b-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Talkbackla\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a7ff41ff970b \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a7ff41ff970b-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\"><\/img><\/a> The decision by a Riverside County school district to pull dictionaries from school shelves because<br \/>\nit includes the term &quot;oral sex&quot; has been generating national debate.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Menifee Union School District took the action last week after a parent complained about the Merriam-Webster&#8217;s 10th edition <\/p>\n<p>This is the definition: &quot;Main Entry: oral sex<br \/>\nFunction: noun<br \/>\nDate: 1973<\/p>\n<p>: oral stimulation of the genital.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#8217;s just not age-appropriate,&quot; school spokeswoman Betti Cadmus told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pe.com\/localnews\/menifee\/stories\/PE_News_Local_W_sdictionary22.414bdf0.html\">the Press-Enterprise<\/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><span class=\"vitstorybody\"><span class=\"vitstorybody\">The district is getting some heat (check out this critique on <a href=\"http:\/\/witnessla.com\/root\/2010\/admin\/oral-sex-merriam-webster-and-the-madness-of-school-districts\/\">Witness L.A.<\/a>).<br \/><\/br><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"vitstorybody\"><span class=\"vitstorybody\">What do you think? Share your thoughts below.<br \/><\/br><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decision by a Riverside County school district to pull dictionaries from school shelves because it includes the term &quot;oral sex&quot; has been generating national debate. The Menifee Union School District took the action last week after a parent complained about the Merriam-Webster&#8217;s 10th edition This is the definition: &quot;Main Entry: oral sex Function: noun [&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-226115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226115","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=226115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}