Hobbit

It is a sad point of fact that man is a strange and merciless being at times. I recently read Nightfall by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg and the whole time I was saying to myself that there was no way a rational society could so easily fall apart like that. Then I thought again. I looked at all the crazy beliefs and close-minded ideologies that still permeate our world and found myself able to see the reality of the story. I do not find it hard to beleive this happened. There are a lot of people with loud mouths and limited views a plenty in this world. Just look at the Republican party and its base in America.

Update, thanks to io9 (CAUTION: may not be suitable for work!):

http://io9.com/5893928/an-update-on-...ium=socialflow

This suggests it might not be Ender's Game: I certainly can't remember the scene in question in Ender's, but it has been a while!

Mark

Sounds like there's more going on here. That article makes it sound like the mother thought the teacher was reading from the internet. Which in her mind equals pornography.

Far out some people need to relax. In our 'nanny state' society, kids are going to grow up all wrong. It seems to go too far both ways - either parents are going all Carrie's mum on their kids (in which case they might eventually blow up and not know how to handle the real world when they get out there. Or, parents become too relaxed, and kids turn out to be little *** swearing and with no respect watching horror movies and playing 15+ rated games when they're too young...

With both my parents as teachers... I could prattle on and on about this subject but from a glimps of the situation, sounds like the parent has nothing better to do then cause problems. Some ppl need to get a life...