You know if there's a lurid school sex story out there, we're all over it.
In a wealthy Connecticut suburb a high school teacher, Nate Fisher, has been fired for giving Eightball, the acclaimed graphic novel by Daniel Clowes (of Ghost World fame), to a female freshman to read over a weekend.
According to the New Haven Register the book contains "references to rape, various sex acts and murder, as well as images of a naked woman, and a peeping tom watching a woman in the shower."
But then the New Haven Advocate noted that "the sex and bloodshed aren't in fact depicted, just talked about, and the nudity is part of a poignant and decidedly non-titillating scene in which a sensitive young woman is afraid her lover will leave her because of an unsightly birthmark."
The girl's father felt the book was "borderline pornography" and "clearly over the line."
Shouldn't a father have more say than a teacher about what his daughter can read? If the teacher had been female would that change anything? What if the student had been male?
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