School assignment has parents discussing what’s appropriate at what age
A social media post about a book at Gemini Middle School in Niles, Illinois, has generated a wide variety of opinions on what’s appropriate for adolescents to read at what age, but a spokesperson for East Maine School District 63 said that no teacher ever assigned the book in question.
That spokesperson, Janet Spector Bishop, said a seventh-grade student chose the book from the seventh-grade classroom library for a small-group assignment. After one parent expressed concerns,
