Parents Pull Son Out of New Hampshire School Over Assigned Book That Refers to Jesus as 'Wine-Guzzling Vagrant and Socialist'
By Diane Macedo
Published December 06, 2010
| FoxNews.com
"Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America," by Barbara Ehrenreich.
A New Hampshire couple has pulled their son out of his local high school after the teen was assigned a book that refers to Jesus Christ as a "wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist."
Aimee Taylor says her oldest son, 16-year-old Jordan Henderson, was required to read "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America," this fall for Bedford High School's personal finance class.
The book is a first-person account of author Barbara Ehrenreich's attempts to make ends meet while working minimum wage jobs in Florida, Maine and Minnesota.
Sounds like those parents are pretty thin skinned. I suppose they would deny their kids the Met Museum of Art too because of one display.
The book was reviewed on NPR and made a lot of sense, when you are in the lower working class, it can be hard to improve things, especially if your social network likes to keep you down.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
Not being a Christian, I may not have the right to point out the way Jesus is depicted in this book. That part definitely caught my attention.
Maybe you have read the book, so you are replying as a book critic. I, for one am not excited about the fact that NPR said it was okay. Aren't they the ones who fired Juan Williams for having an opinion?
