Literature dealing with hot-button topics such as AIDS and child abuse are okay for classroom use- so long as those works have happy endings, at least according to the administrative board of the Fremont Unified School District in California.

The board has approved other books with sensitive topics in the past, but President Lily Mei explained that “there are characters [in other books] out there that go through rape and abuse that have better endings.”

“Better endings?” Seriously?

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