A parent who complained about a book assigned to his daughter at Gilford High School in Gilford, New Hampshire, was arrested and taken away in handcuffs from a school board meeting for refusing to “be quiet” when repeatedly admonished by a board member.
William Baer, whose ninth-grade daughter last week was assigned the book “Nineteen Minutes,” came to the meeting to protest the book’s assignment and the district’s failure to notify parents the book contained graphic descriptions of “rough sex” between teens.
According to a report in the Laconia Daily Sun, Baer challenged the board to actually read aloud that portion of “Nineteen Minutes” during the meeting, but school officials refused.
Before speaking, Baer was told he had two minutes.
Baer spoke beyond the time limit and then sat down, but then exchanged words with another parent who approved of the book.
“So what is the remedy here?” Baer asked.
The board said it would not take questions on the matter.
“Sir, would you please be respectful of the other people?” a school board member responded.
“Like you’re respectful of my daughter, right? And my children?” he countered.
“Please, be quiet,” admonished the board member.
A police officer then arrived at the scene, instructing Baer to leave with him.
“You are going to arrest me because I violated the two-minute rule?” the father said. “I guess you are going to have to arrest me.”
But Baer did get support from other parents.
Sarah Carrignan said, according to the Sun, that she was “‘utterly appalled that this was acceptable. My son should never have had the book in his hand.”
Part of the problem was that when the book was used previously in the school, parents were notified and asked for permission for their children to participate.
The school this year didn’t notify parents until after students already were assigned the book and given access to the material.
Gilford Police Lt. James Leach, who was at the meeting, ordered Baer to leave the meeting, and then handcuffed the parent. Reports say Baer was ticketed for disorderly conduct.
The report said Baer had challenged Principal Kent Hemingway to read aloud the controversial section. But board chairman Sue Allen said no one from the board or administration would do that.
“Nineteen Minutes,” published in 2007 by best-selling author Jodi Picoult, was described by a reviewer on Good Reads as not having “the artistic writing that Picoult’s earlier novels did.”
“In ‘Nineteen Minutes,’ Picoult told a story – a good one. But the nuance and magic of her earlier writing is gone,” the review said. It’s about, “Peter Houghton, picked on by school mates from the first day of kindergarten, enters Sterling High, and in nineteen minutes kills ten and wounds another nineteen students.”
The reviewer recommended it “for someone desperate for anything to read.”
The Leader reported Allen later issued a statement concerning the assignment: “The board apologizes for the discomfort of those impacted and for the failure of the school district to send home prior notice of assignment of the novel.”
The statement continued, “The school district policies IGE, IJ, IJA, KEC (available on the school district website) refer to the procedures for the use of novels controversial material. The district will take immediate action to revise these policies to include notification that requires parents to accept controversial material rather than opt out. Furthermore, the notification will detail more specifically the controversial material. These policies will be revised prior to the 2014-15 school year.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/05/dad-handcuffed-for-protesting-graphic-sex-book/#ImLgO8vqcyqeKYvb.99
That pigs name, and home address needs to be plastered all over the blogosphere…
The SS
its beyond me why any loving parent would subject their child to a public school system.
you get what you are allowing…quit allowing it..take your kid out and be a parent , teach him yourself
with all the resources today to educate , its beyond me why anyone would have their child indoctrinated like this
Home school, on line schools etc..
My kids GPA increased almost an entire point once put into a home school environment
and guess what? I dont have to deal with sh^t like this or as$ holes like that either
Did anyone else notice how the PIG grabbed the guys wrist and tried to put him in a wrist lock???……..i tell ya what……..if that EVER happened to me, that PIG would be on the ground. just a reminder to get his gun before making
any moves, lest you turn into an active target for the PIG to murder.
You would either get a misdemeanor or a felony for resisting arrest, depending on the mood of the communist cop or judge. Until the militia decides to revolt we will just have to live in this communist Jew hell.
Shame on the rest of the people in that meeting for letting that Nazi take him. Whats the old saying if they are at your door to get you its already to late to do anything!!