Hugging Sea Horse E-book Is Too Racy For Colleges, Tennessee Mothers Group Says

A kids’s ebook with an illustration of hugging sea horses is simply too sizzling to deal with for youths and needs to be banned from elementary faculties in Williamson County, Tennessee, a chapter of the conservative group Mothers for Liberty insists.

“Sea Horse: The Shyest Fish within the Sea” consists of such steamy passages as: “They twist their tails collectively and twirl gently round, altering coloration till they match. … The 2 of them dance till sundown after which she places her eggs into his pouch.”

Mothers for Liberty additionally needs public faculties within the county, simply outdoors of Nashville, to ditch a story about Johnny Appleseed as a result of it’s “darkish,” and is against a ebook about hurricanes as a result of “first grade is simply too younger to listen to about potential devastating results of hurricanes.” A ebook about Martin Luther King Jr. is simply too divisive, the mothers complained in an 11-page letter earlier this 12 months to the state’s Board of Training, Reuters reported. The top of the native chapter has no kids in public faculties.

There are 31 books the group in Williamson County objects to.

“Some books needs to be eliminated totally,” a consultant of Mothers for Liberty wrote in an e-mail to the Each day Beast. “Some books are objectionable solely due to how they’re introduced through the accompanying trainer’s guide. … Some books could be higher suited to a better grade degree because of their age inappropriate content material.”

The ocean horse ebook could possibly be applicable for eighth graders, she famous.