15 Comments
User's avatar
Edward Sharib's avatar

Peter Noyes elementary school lists this book in there online catalog. I’ve been keeping an eye out and up to now i thought they were ok— but now i have my doubts and will have to get more involved… I notified my granddaughters parents about this.

Massachusetts Informed Parents's avatar

Thank you for letting us know!

Rich's avatar

Edward, I've started a Parental Rights Sudbury facebook page. I'm trying to get people organized. I have two kids in the Noyes school and another at Curtis.

mike's avatar

how did you find it ?

mulhern's avatar

The Library of Congress no longer classifies "Let's Talk about It" by Moen et al., as "sex eduation for children". After I questioned this classification last December, it was changed, designating the book as appropriate for teenagers, instead, although it is really not that, either. Here is the response to me by the LoC:

"The subject heading Sex education for children--Comic books, strips, etc. has been changed to Sex education for teenagers--Comic books, strips, etc."

When I asked why it had been considered appropriate for children I received the following response:

"It was a simply a mistake by the cataloger. "

Massachusetts Informed Parents's avatar

Simply a mistake by the cataloger... recommended porn to kids... oops our bad

For goodness sakes. 🤦‍♀️

Very interesting update though! Thanks for sharing!

Edward Sharib's avatar

joined group thanks - but there’ 5 of you Richard so didn’t direct message (which one)

Edward Sharib's avatar

I’m not great with Facebook so how do i get to ur Sudbury Parents page. All also share with my daughter, my granddaughter is at Noyes

Rich's avatar

look up Parental Rights Sudbury and it should pop up. Send me a direct message if you look up Richard Thalmann you'll find me.

Trule Wright's avatar

Did you get permission to use the excerpts? You might be violating copyright.

Massachusetts Informed Parents's avatar

We checked with an attorney first, but thanks for your concern.

Edward Sharib's avatar

It’s on the school library online catalog. See the email body from MIP to get to the link

I hope it’s a mistake and not physically at the school but i’ll be checking soon

Massachusetts Informed Parents's avatar

We checked the Noyes catalog and it appears to be available in ebook format. If that is correct, there won't be a physical copy at the school but students can access it electronically!

Edward Sharib's avatar

isn’t that worse these days -?? I’ll have to figure out how to make the parents aware

Yulia Berry's avatar

Quincy Public Schools don't have it - I checked, but Quincy Public Library has it.