Jackson Jambalaya

Turn my children over to the State for eight hours a day? Sure! Keeps my electric bill low with the televisions turned off during school hours.

Reads like a Biden appointee decision-

How much did the school district spend fighting their stupid decision?

Clown world. No one is at the helm, not even Trump.

Go back for about a week to talk shit to everyone who got you fired and announce retirement...back pay applies to his PERS

Complain about MS public schools all you want, but at least the kids aren’t reading Chop of My Willy and Call Me Suzie. The vast majority of MS classrooms are still a safe environment for children. Can’t say the same for blue states.

Thanks to our cancel culture. The book does its job. Keeps the kid's attention. Perhaps it was not in the best taste, but it is not vulgar and there is no language that the children do not already use. Perhaps a new position outside of the haters, is better anyway.

Drink more beer

I read every word of the posted proceedings and agree with the court. The decision is well based and laid out. My wife taught kindergarten and first grade for a number of years and it was not unusual for her to be referred to as MF (I've abbreviated it) in those classrooms as well as by the offenders' parents.

The book in question is silly, as the teacher says and 7-8 year olds are probably not embarrassed by the word butt. I do not think a book discussing sexual body parts or activities would be appropriate in a second grade classroom.

Seventy years ago it was: Fatty Fatty two by four, can't get out the bathroom door.

Does this mean he returns to the same job at the same location?

Why should it not apply? Any wrongful termination should have a remedy. I hope he *does* retire and, if he has an opportunity, moons the school board.

Before banning a book, maybe you should read it. Thank goodness my parents wanted me to read! I read banned in Boston books and got great grades all the way through graduate school. I was invited to join every social club and volunteer group everywhere I lived. I was a virgin bride and have been happily married for 57 years. Our children graduated college and have successful careers and my grands got full academic scholarships to college and play a sport at their universities. They will also be financially secure as are we. Yeah, reading books that were banned in Boston really wrecked my life. Some preachers really don't want you to read ALL the Bible which I've done several times and took a course in the history of religion.
If someone is holier than thou...avoid them!

I hear the young elementary kids these days have started telling fart and poop jokes! What is the world coming to?

As I see in the comments, the Baptists are still running Mississippi.

"Butt" is short for buttocks. However, the word "fart" in the book is still considered vulgar in many contexts. I was taught that it was vulgar growing up "back in the day."

Has the book Everyone Poops been banned yet?

That's the kind of pointyhead science edumacation we don't need much of!

Read the book turds ! It isn't a "gay" book. Now think about your tax dollars wasted on this. Our world is soooo screwed ........both sides freaking out over the dumbest crap. You know who you are.

the kids would rather be vaping

I read the entire opinion, and even more (enjoyable) was listening to the oral arguments - and totally agree with the opinion.

This book is appropriate for a second grader - in school or at home - and something that serves an educational purpose. Anybody that is going to be shocked at hearing the word "butt" while around a group of second graders needs to adjust their thinking; and "fart" is a standard anywhere on a second grade playground and I don't give a damn if the playground is on a Jackson Public School location, a Presbyterian private school, or a bunch of homeschoolers who went across to a churchyard.

But getting back to the actual case, the Hinds County School administrators were totally wrong to fire this individual for having read this book (like and agree with the above analysis of it and its content or not) - the facts clearly show the arbitrary decision and how it was made. I hope he does as suggested above and gets his position back, receives his backpay check, and then quits, mooning them on the way out the door.

11:32 said, "read ALL the Bible which I've done several times and took a course in the history of religion."

Sorry pal. This makes you mildly educated, not well educated. Of course your entire post is evidence of being mildly educated. Quit claiming to be well educated.

Reading second graders a book about farting is evidence we need to bring back Mcguffeys Eclectic Readers.

By all means let’s give more money to the public schools for this kind of idiocy.

8:51 pm. Your reading comprehension scores must be very low. The point is that IF you've read the Bible all the way through, you become aware that many self-proclaimed " preachers" (some without any actual study and certainly with no ability to read Aramaic) ignore context just as you did. I also find it interesting how many self-educated evangelists rely heavily on the Old Testament which was written before Jesus was born. Of course, there have also been quite a few interpretations and edits over the centuries as well.

Good Lord! Some of you have zero long term memory or are great at reinvention! Even in the 1950's second graders laughed when their classmate wet their pants or " broke wind" (since every four letter "f-word" is likely too shocking for your virgin ears!)

Nothing in 11:32's post denotes "uneducated", you hack. You're insulting someone just for the sake of it. And taking that quote out of context does not necessarily make you better than anyone else, which was actually that person's whole point about having read the bible. Apparently your own education failed you when it came to reading comprehension.

You all are just a bunch of stinky fart poopoo buttheads.

8:51 pm The point was reading a book that isn't " age appropriate" isn't the cause of bad behavior in children, crime or immorality. If children don't enjoy reading early, they will read only what is required. How long did it take Mississippi to get Phi Beta Kappa? Did you not wonder why it took so long? Do you not wonder why our best and brightest children leave in such large numbers? You don't recognize the expertise of teachers or what is required to teach some courses? Or that their education can be age and grade and subject specific?

I was watching a friend's family's notorious home movies, which included 'The Bankruptcy Barbecue' - a final party the Filmmaker threw, before losing his plantations and Federal Period manor house. "Le Tout d'Ancien Regime" were there, including three cousins in the Legislature, the Hodding Carters, and Walter Sillers (whose reshaping of Mississippi's government was so good, NOBODY NEEDS TO MESS WITH IT - particularly the RINO kleptocracy running the state, today).

The family (who, following the bursting of the Filmmaker's money-float bubble - which took down two banks in the resulting maelstrom - went on to become oil brokers, then industrialists: decamping for Aspen and the Isle of Palms) still owns the monumental Louis IV mirror, for which 'The House of the Rising Sun' was named (they worked German officers as slave labor, and made enough money to stock the manor house with New Orleans' most overwrought antiques). I've only seen the mirror as a re-gilded mess (ask Donald: it's hard to get good gold-leaf, these days), and wanted to see the original Haussmanian French Water Gilding - hence the viewing of the movie.

The camera pans the Cabana, and the bayou-side terrace, and there's my chum, as a 12-year-old. "That moment got me in SO MUCH TROUBLE! Walter Sillers was telling a joke: something about that new dance, "The Twist", and somebody in the joke was saying "Doing the SCREW" and somebody replies, "Mother! It's not The Screw! It's The TWIST!"

"Well, I couldn't wait to repeat that joke, at school. I mean, if Mr. Sillers and three legislaturemen found it sidesplittingly funny, it must be a great joke: RIGHT? I did, and somebody told on me."

"So, there I was, in the Principal's office, being lectured: this, after the pluckin' SCHOOL COUNSELOR evaluated me for mental disorders BECAUSE I SAID 'SCREW' - but luckily, he couldn't find any mental disorders. Maybe, if I'd thought to drop some names..."

The point of all this, is to assert that authority figures (like teachers and authors) need to be very careful. By saying (or writing) something, they're VETTING IT: telling kids it's OK to say. Other grownups may not know the backstory, and will punish or MARGINALIZE kids, who repeat what they've been taught.

You can get kids in big trouble, teaching them the wrong things. And if this teacher doesn't understand that, then he has no business teaching.