This required reading is too steamy for students!
The principals union is calling on the Department of Education to pull Virginia Euwer Wolff’s novel “Make Lemonade” from the Common Core curriculum for eighth-graders because it’s too sexually explicit.
Ernie Logan, the president of the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators, sent a memo to its members yesterday warning them that the book “contains passages that many will consider inappropriate for middle-school students.”
“Your discretion is advised,” the letter states.
Many are shocked that the DOE vetted and approved a book — about a 14-year-old girl who baby-sits for a 17-year-old single mother with two children from two different fathers — which features passages that could rival erotica novel “Fifty Shades of Grey.”
“He touched me, way under my shirt — so fast I didn’t even see his hand go — he put his big old smelly wet mouth all over my face, he was jabbin’ my jeans, I don’t know how many hands he was usin’, maybe he got an extra,” reads one excerpt.
A field rep for the union came across the book during a routine tour of the city schools. Since then, the elicit material has caused a stir among the city’s principals, who want the books out of their schools before they get into the hands of students.
“I don’t question the literary value of this book, but as the former principal of a middle school, I find its content inappropriate for eighth-graders, and I know it would create a problem,” Logan told The Post.
An official at the Department of Education stood behind the book.
“The novel has been highly recommended for middle-school grades,” said DOE spokesperson Erin Hughes.