Heh

[yendi]

Elayna will be heading to Splash in a bit, and she got an email from her poetry instructor noting that she'll need a permission slip (since, *gasp*, there might be mature themes in the class. The sound you hear is me clutching my pearls).

The email tells the students to "print this form and have it signed by somebody whose handwriting looks like your guardian's."

I am amused.

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[theloriest.livejournal.com]

My mom stopped having to sign my permission slips by the time I reached sixth grade. Granted, by perfecting her signature I also ensured she would no longer see any other notes sent home from school, either. :) And I had notes for excused absences and tardies once I hit high school. :D

[yendi]

Heh. Once my voice changed, calling into the school office for myself was a piece of cake. My senior year had a lot of cuts.

[greylistening.livejournal.com]

That's lovely. It's wonderful to come across an authority figure with a sly sense of humor.

[yendi]

In fairness, most of the courses are taught by grad students and undergrads, which probably helps. :-)

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

And, yet, as devil's advocate, if any parent had a problem with what their child was exposed to in this program, language like that is sure to be a poor choices of words, legally.

[yendi]

*nod* I get that, but I'm also very distrusting of parents of high schoolers who would block their kids from a program that they opted into and signed up for on their own. It's one thing when it's a seven-year-old, but when the kids are seventeen, they're capable of making their own choices (and, of course, they'd have no problem going to a bookstore and buying a copy of the poems of Sharon Olds, for example, other than the problems inherent in finding a brick-and-mortar bookstore and finding one that carries poetry).