Originally published at: This Mississippi school district's letter tragically firing an assistant principal for reading a children's book to a 2nd-grade class is also hilarious | Boing Boing
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Like all too many school administrators, Ms. Martin is completely disconnected from the tastes and sensibilities of her young charges. I doubt she even cracked a smile writing that letter.
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Cheeky…
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Yes, the shameful, terrible BUTT, which nearly everyone has. NEVER SPEAK OF IT.
This, my friends, is how you get adults who “never learned” to wipe their asses because they think it’s “homosexual” to perform bodily maintenance.
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Wow. I did hear about this the other day, but didn’t take the time to read the letter or the book. The book is harmless. Some body humor that is mildly gross, but kids think that stuff is hilarious at the right age.
I remember in 1st grade in a reading less we covered the word “but” and was told we could laugh at it just this once. This one girl who was always in trouble for talking and being too loud just went in with 100% joy laughing at it.
Anyway - I imagine this Ms Martin is like a villain in a Tim Burton film - completely void of joy, creativity, and revolted by things out side of their norm.
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Glad to see Ms Martin is working hard, and making the tough calls, to maintain her state’s ranking in education.
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Everyone has a butt, but it takes a special kind of person to be an ass like this superintendent.
I hope the principal does request a hearing and at that hearing brings in each child to whom they read the book. Ask each kid the same question: “Did that book embarrass or disparage you?” If (as I suspect) none say yes, ask how their conduct could have exposed students to unnecessary embarrassment or disparagement if none of the students were embarrassed or disparaged.
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Tuckus a minute to figure this one out.
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We all find ourselves a little behind sometimes. Or a big behind.
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Please, please, please tell me you’re being facetious. I can’t have that being a real thing.
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Next up: “Everybody Poops” and “The Gas We Pass.”
My kids loved these when they were little. Guess they have to go, eh?
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I have seen internet posts claiming it is indeed a thing… women who marry men who leave a mess in their underwear from not cleaning up. 
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I watched the video of the book reading. I have to take issue with the internal logic of the book. The replacement butts the kid is considering all have cracks in them! It makes no sense. This book should be banned!
I’m kidding. It’s a silly kids book. Farts and poop and gross stuff have been staples of primary school reading material for some time now. People should lighten up.
[Edited for subject-verb agreement.]
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Just not something I expected to learn about today…
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A book I recently read on writing stated in its kids section that the most popular word for kids is fart. If you want kids to pay attention, use fart. You want engagement? Sprinkle a fart in there. And, naturally, a quick laugh is achieved by a fart.
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A song for music class:
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please tell me there will be a hearing and all the second graders will show up and make fart jokes in defense of this principal. is that too much to ASSk?
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And, to be fair, some of our Founding Fathers were big proponents of farting!
https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/to-the-royal-academy-of-farting/
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What Ms. Martin doesn’t realize is that despite her efforts, kids will continue to relate gross jokes and stories to each other in the bathrooms and on the playgrounds. There is no stopping the rebellion.
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