Adult Education

Janet Harmon was on that committee.

Apparently, she's had second thoughts.

The district has already been enormously accommodating to her. Last year, she objected to a book that a teacher had assigned to her freshman son. The district pointed out that it already allowed any parent who disapproved of a required book to request an alternative.

So there must be hundreds of students and their parents who have objected to classroom reading materials and selected alternative books, right?

"In our four high schools, it's less than ten," says Russ Kokoruda, the district's executive director of school administration.

Only ten? Hmm. Well, we just hope no one hands a copy of this article to those ten students. They might be scarred for life.
Tony Ortega talks about this week's Pitch with KRBZ 96.5's Lazlo after 4 p.m. Wednesday.