Teacher Suspended for Giving *********ion Story to Students

[The Doctor]

New York, November 10 (ANI): An English teacher was suspended for providing his students with a graphic short story about *********ion written by “Fight Club” author Chuck Palahniuk.
Greg Van Voorhis had given the story to read to students preparing for the English Regents exam at The Bronx School of Law and Finance in Marble Hill.
The material written for Playboy magazine told the tale of a teenage boy’s use of a carrot in a sex act on himself and autoerotic asphyxiation.
Even though students were made to return the copies of the text at the end of the class, the principal of the school Evan Schwartz came to know about it as the gossip had spread in the school.
“We found out about it kind of through the grapevine. It’s a small school. It’s hard to keep a secret,” the New York Post quoted Schwartz as saying.
Now the matter is being investigated by the Department of Education, while Voorish has been reassigned out of the classroom.
Schwartz added: “I deemed for someone else to decide whether it was inappropriate. I had to report it.”
Meanwhile, students are protesting the suspension of Voorish.
They have started a letter-writing campaign to Schools Chancellor Joel Klein and created a “Save Mr. V” page on Facebook.
Fifteen -year-old junior Omar Caminero said: “We’re not little kids. We are in high school. It’s not like we’ve never read anything like that — we have.”
Another student Frankchesca Jimenez, 16, said: “He didn’t mean it to be anything other than something we could learn from.”
Meanwhile, a spokeswoman for the DOE refused to comment over the issue. (ANI)


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I couldn't bring myself to read the story, the summary of the last way really, really grossed me out.

What can I say, I'm a lightweight.

The story in question was entitled "Guts".

 

[Turd Ferguson]

I really don't see what the big deal is. It's not like he gave the story out to 10 year olds. These kids are able to handle mature content such as that. He's also giving them the work of Palahniuk to read, one of this generation's greatest writers, and he's also informing them of the dangers of auto-erotic asphyxiation and why it's dangerous to fornicate yourself with a foreign object.

I really wish I had a teacher as cool as that my junior year of high school. Most kids don't like to read. If his teaching methods involve giving unorthodox subject matter so they will read, then so what?

 

[SSJPhenom]

Wow......Just.......Wow.......

This thread should have been in the Cigar Lounge.

I agree with GuyCompton.

 

[FromTheSouth]

That is such inappropriate content for a high school.

 

[X]

Meh, not really FTS. I was reading Naked Lunch in 7th grade.

I've read that story by Chuck, that's a good one. His stories for Playboy are always top notch, there was a great one he wrote about some form of Japanese *********ion or something where the man sticks some sort of stick down his urethra and manages to jerk himself off from the inside or something like that. Yeah, very good story.

 

[The Dewbliners]

That teacher should be ashamed. Some of his students were likely underage, and it may have been offensive to more than a few. That wreckless. If he was trying to teach the dangers of Autoerotic, there are better ways.

 

[X]

Why should he be ashamed for reading a story by a prominent author to them? You guys sound like the people that wanted Catcher in the Rye banned.

 

[Razor]

The only problem i see is the possible illegal passing of pornography to a minor. However, is a short story about *********ion pornography? I have no idea.

But if the students weren't offended by the content, how do we have the right to be offended? That would be like suing the government because they fired someone in another state. We have no legal standing to sue for another person's termination, and I don't think we have the right to be offended over this if the students weren't.

 

[X]

I've read the story, it's far from pornographic. It's actually quite disturbing.

 

[Razor]

I've read the story, it's far from pornographic. It's actually quite disturbing.

I'm going to check it out when I get back from this hospital tour they've got me going on for Bio Engineering.

The most I can see now, from the quote in Doc's post and Xfear's testimony, the teacher skirted decency at the very most. He didn't give them pornography, so I don't see the problem.

 

[The Doctor]

I don't think he should have been suspended. It was a totally fucked up story, though.

 

[ABMorales787]

Its sexual education. Last I remembered, I took a class with that subject in the 8th grade and again in the 11th grade. On both grades we would hear worst stories than this. Talking about the wrongs of sex isn't grounds to suspend anyone. It's as stupid as Nash being suspended for worrying about Chris Sabin and scolding the Dudleys. On our classes we would see picture's of people's genital's with STD's! So you tell me which one was a worse idea teach. Let me answer. None. It's information that will guide teens to have a healthier future.

 

[Loveless]

I'm all for education but there's a limit and this teacher went way past it. That story is inappropriate for 15 and 16 year olds. It's not like it was even a sex ed class. The guy should be fired.

 

[jmt225]

The real question is why do dumb ass kids go run and tell their parents or other teachers about this kind of stuff? You have an awesome teacher that will actually share something like that with you, only to go rat on him like a bitch and get him fired.

God I fucking hate kids sometimes. Glad I never was one.

 

[FromTheSouth]

X-

There's a point where the fight against censorship is fucking stupid. Stories about autoerotic asphyxiation and *********ion with carrots fall on the other side of that line. No one is saying these stories shouldn't be written, but they should not be assigned reading for high school kids.

 

[FromTheSouth]

I don't think he should have been suspended. It was a totally fucked up story, though.

You're right. He should've been fired.

 

[gd]

Meh, not really FTS. I was reading Naked Lunch in 7th grade.

I've read that story by Chuck, that's a good one. His stories for Playboy are always top notch, there was a great one he wrote about some form of Japanese *********ion or something where the man sticks some sort of stick down his urethra and manages to jerk himself off from the inside or something like that. Yeah, very good story.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWW

 

[Loveless]

X-

There's a point where the fight against censorship is fucking stupid. Stories about autoerotic asphyxiation and *********ion with carrots fall on the other side of that line. No one is saying these stories shouldn't be written, but they should not be assigned reading for high school kids.

I feel dirty for agreeing with you as it obviously goes against my liberal, hippy anti-censorship, "sports anchor quoting lefty" politics but yes, precisely.

 

[byrnside]

Meh, not really FTS. I was reading Naked Lunch in 7th grade.

I've read that story by Chuck, that's a good one. His stories for Playboy are always top notch, there was a great one he wrote about some form of Japanese *********ion or something where the man sticks some sort of stick down his urethra and manages to jerk himself off from the inside or something like that. Yeah, very good story.

Could've been the same story, but my ex girlfriend had a book filled with short stories of auto erotic behavior. In the version I read, the kid used melted and re hardened candle wax, that re melted in his urethra and he had to have it surgically removed.

 

[My$terio_Fan]

I use to have the biggest crush on my teacher, I wish he would have read the story to me

 

[The Doctor]

The story detailed three cases. I'm not sure if they were all the same kid, because I've only read passages from it.

First case: Boy *********es with a carrot. Leaves it in his pile of dirty clothes. When he goes to dinner, his mother picks up his clothes for washing, and finds the carrot.

Second case: Kid sticks a candle in his urethra. It breaks in half, and he has to go get an X-Ray because he starts peeing blood. Ends up having to tell the family everything.

Third case: Uses a pool-sucking-thing. Gets all his guts sucked out and his intestines tie him to the pool floor. He looks like a fetus "surrounded by pools of wasted sperm".

 

[My$terio_Fan]

Just read it. I cringed, umm what was the point of reading this to kids for english class in the first place? Strange.

 

[X]

The story detailed three cases. I'm not sure if they were all the same kid, because I've only read passages from it.

First case: Boy *********es with a carrot. Leaves it in his pile of dirty clothes. When he goes to dinner, his mother picks up his clothes for washing, and finds the carrot.

Second case: Kid sticks a candle in his urethra. It breaks in half, and he has to go get an X-Ray because he starts peeing blood. Ends up having to tell the family everything.

Third case: Uses a pool-sucking-thing. Gets all his guts sucked out and his intestines tie him to the pool floor. He looks like a fetus "surrounded by pools of wasted sperm".

Yep, that's the one, it's a collection of three tales, the pool-sucking part was fucking brilliant.

X-

There's a point where the fight against censorship is fucking stupid. Stories about autoerotic asphyxiation and *********ion with carrots fall on the other side of that line. No one is saying these stories shouldn't be written, but they should not be assigned reading for high school kids.

It wasn't assigned reading FTS, he read it in a class. There's a difference.

You're right. He should've been fired.

That's fucking ridiculous FTS. He should be fired for reading a Chuck Pahliunuk story? Yeah, cause in this economy that's just what we need, more people being fired for petty bullshit.

I could understand if he read it to elementary or middle schoolers, but high schoolers? Do you think they don't know what *********ion is or something? Fuck is a year or two until they're 18 really going to make that much of a difference? Is a magic "maturity" button going to pop off in their head on their 18th birthday?

Inappropriate for high schoolers, that's rich. Have you seen the kids in high schools these days? When they aren't smoking blunts in the bathroom or getting into fights they're browsing hardcore porn on school computers.

 

[ABMorales787]

Either those kids where too young, or too stupid. A carrot? Use a condom and cut the head.

Now that I think about it, maybe the teacher shouldve sent wavers to the parents.

Then again, I've heaed worst cases.

 

[byrnside]

The story detailed three cases. I'm not sure if they were all the same kid, because I've only read passages from it.

First case: Boy *********es with a carrot. Leaves it in his pile of dirty clothes. When he goes to dinner, his mother picks up his clothes for washing, and finds the carrot.

Second case: Kid sticks a candle in his urethra. It breaks in half, and he has to go get an X-Ray because he starts peeing blood. Ends up having to tell the family everything.

Third case: Uses a pool-sucking-thing. Gets all his guts sucked out and his intestines tie him to the pool floor. He looks like a fetus "surrounded by pools of wasted sperm".

Yeah that's from the book my ex had. Had no idea it was Palahniuk.