A North Carolina teen spoke out Tuesday at a school board meeting after she was allegedly forced to read a sexually explicit book in class about a relationship between two cousins.
Lorena Benson, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic who left the school over the incident, claimed her Athens Drive Magnet High School English class required students to read a book with “graphic, incestual sexual language” in it, according to a video of the meeting posted on X by activist John K. Amanchukwu Sr. The 15-year-old sophomore said the book’s contents made her and other students “very uncomfortable” and “deeply bothered” her due to their sexual nature.
“There was a part in the story that made me very uncomfortable, and I looked around and saw the same expression on other students’ faces,” Benson said during the meeting. “We all had just read the following: It was not the summer you fell in love with your cousin, because that happened just a few summers before when you both wiggled into the tiny space behind grandma’s garage and you tried to fit what you both called his banana into what you both called your tomato, but neither of you was sure which was the right hole.”
Benson did not give the name in the clip, but the passage appears to originate from the story “Tomorrow Is Too Far” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, according to North Carolina newspaper The News & Observer. […]
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