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Controversy growing over Riverside school district decision to ban dictionary
- 01-26-2010
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By Maggie Avants/San Diego News Network
Students in some Riverside County schools are now without certain dictionaries, as the district banned them. Officials with the Menifee Union School District say the growing controversy over the removal of a dictionary from the classroom has led to the misconception that all dictionaries have been pulled. The district is responding to the controversy that is attracting national and international media coverage after officials temporarily removed copies of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary Tenth Edition for containing graphic terms like “oral sex.” A parent volunteer working in her son’s classroom came across the term, according to Betti Cadmus, and submitted a written complaint to the school’s principal, who contacted the assistant superintendent of curriculum. (more...)
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