Published on Thursday, January 28, 2010
By Staff Writer
Print 'appropriate' words
The Press-Enterprise considers college-level dictionary definitions in fourth- and fifth-grade classrooms appropriate for reading by advanced pre-adolescent students. But such definitions are not appropriate for printing verbatim in The P-E to be read by unscreened adults and children ("Book-ban folly," Our Views, Jan. 26).
Why don't you print the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary definition of "oral sex" in accordance with fairness and a free press?
Why should parents objecting to classroom use of this dictionary be subjected to the ridicule of people who have never read the applicable definition in a newspaper reporting the controversy?
Daniel Goodwin
San Jacinto
Don't humiliate parents
It's too bad that columnists Dan Bernstein ("
'I' is for ignorant," Jan. 27) and Carl Love ("Censoring school books is no way to protect kids," Jan
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