board of ed. reacts to opposition to this year’s One book’s content
Wednesday, September 5, 2018 • The Hammonton Gazette • Page 3
SCHOOL, from Page 1
Next Door by Jared Reck. He
shared two of what he said were
numerous quotes of a similar na-
ture from the book.
“What brought me here, I apol-
ogize if anybody gets offended for
what I’m going to say. There’s a
book that was required reading for
incoming freshman, I have a
daughter, I know some other peo-
ple here on the board have daugh-
ters and kids, I see a lot of you in
church. I’m going to quote page 67
of A Short History of the Girl Next
Door by Jared Reck, of this litera-
ture piece of garbage—’You know
if you grow some t*ts, I’ll let you
suck my d*ck,’ that’s on page 67
of the book. I will go to page 77,
and this is the last quote that I’ll do
because there’s numerous items
like this in the book— ‘Uh song’s
not about me dumb*ss, I’m not
sucking your d*ck but check with
my man Branson here he’s into
freshmen he might let you suck
his,” Forsman said.
He told the board that when he
called to discuss the matter a mem-
ber of the language arts depart-
ment informed him that there was
an alternative reading option, how-
ever he was unaware of the
graphic nature of the book prior to
purchasing it and was looking for
an explanation as to how the book
was chosen.
“I called to complain and I
spoke to somebody from the lan-
gua