{"id":268692,"date":"2010-02-02T17:14:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T22:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100126\/0709457898.shtml"},"modified":"2010-02-02T17:14:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T22:14:00","slug":"merriam-webster-dictionary-pulled-from-elementary-school-for-defining-oral-sex-guess-what-all-the-students-just-found-out-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/268692","title":{"rendered":"Merriam Webster Dictionary Pulled From Elementary School For Defining Oral Sex; Guess What All The Students Just Found Out About?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pickle Monger<\/a> points us to yet another story of overreaction that will clearly backfire in a misguided attempt to “protect the children!” Apparently a parent of a student at Oak Meadows Elementary school in Riverside, California got very upset when she discovered that the schools had copies of the collegiate level Merriam-Websters Dictionary which (gasp!) contained a definition of the phrase “oral sex.” Because of that the dictionary was removed from classrooms<\/a> and a committee was formed to “investigate.” Thankfully, the committee concluded that the original dictionary was fine and should be returned to the classroom, but that an alternative dictionary will be provided<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n

Of course, many other parents at the school pointed out how ridiculous it was that the dictionaries were removed in the first place. It’s not as if kids will never hear a phrase like that and seek out an answer somewhere. Would parents really prefer that the kids go to Google and do a search on “oral sex,” or go to a dictionary instead? Furthermore, this is a definite “Streisand Effect” situation. Now that this story has made the press, you have to imagine that a significantly higher number of elementary school students at Oak Meadows have now heard the term “oral sex” and figured out what it meant.<\/p>\n

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Pickle Monger points us to yet another story of overreaction that will clearly backfire in a misguided attempt to “protect the children!” Apparently a parent of a student at Oak Meadows Elementary school in Riverside, California got very upset when she discovered that the schools had copies of the collegiate level Merriam-Websters Dictionary which (gasp!) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268692","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}