Michigan Woman Believes Anne Frank's Diary is Indecent, Wants It Pulled From Middle School Reading Lists

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Anne Frank's diary, published under the title of The Diary of a Young Girl, has been a fixture in U.S. middle school curriculum for years, but one Northville, Michigan mother is looking to change that because - brace yourself - she believes the book is "pornographic."

"The problem is the school is giving the seventh graders inappropriate material and not explaining it to the parents," the woman, Gail Horalek, told the Northville Patch. "If they watch any kind of movie with a swear word in it, I have to sign a permission slip."

The passage she believes to be damning to the book is one featured in only the unedited version - it features Frank discussing the "discovery of her own genitalia" at length. The passage, in full:

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Horalek claims that her young daughter approached her and said she was "uncomfortable" with the "graphic" nature of the passages. "It doesn’t mean my child is sheltered, it doesn’t mean I live in a bubble, and it doesn’t mean I'm trying to ban books," Horalek went on to explain. 

Horalek is urging the school to switch back to the edited version of the book. Northville Schools' Assistant Superintendent Robert Behnke responded to Horalek's request via e-mail, stating that "a committee consisting of parents, teachers, media specialists, and administrators will be assembled to review the concerns expressed."

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[via Gawker]

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