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A Texas school district superintendent went viral on Facebook after a social media commenter allegedly called teachers<\/a> “demons” for assigning a book this person considered inappropriate.<\/p>\n Abilene Independent School District Superintendent John Kuhn’s Facebook post<\/a>, which garnered thousands of shares, reactions and hundreds of comments, criticized a social media post and its comments, which he said he could not share with Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n “I get to my hotel room and find some social media commenter calling my teachers \u2018demons\u2019 because they assigned a chapter of the amazing book \u2018Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close\u2019 as a reading passage for a freshman honors English class. This is a book written in the voice of a nine-year-old boy who lost his dad on 9\/11 in the terrorist attack on the twin towers. It\u2019s an award-winning book. But the passage has the word “s—” in it. And it has a vulgar term that I\u2019m told the teacher was unfamiliar with it,” Kuhn wrote.<\/p>\n “And it has a crude joke about talking butts \u2013 which I was a nine-year-old boy and that\u2019s the kind of crudeness we giggle at, so the author was pretty spot on. It also has the word \u2018p—-\u2019 but that was what the kid called his cat, but the Facebook post highlighted it as part of making a case that this book was inappropriate.”<\/p>\n MARYLAND TEACHER FACES CALLS FOR RESIGNATION OVER CONTROVERSIAL CHARLIE KIRK MEME<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Kuhn recognized that the book could be restricted to certain age groups. However, he argued that teachers face criticism for the books they assign to students, even though their intention is to challenge advanced readers.<\/p>\n “Thing is, it\u2019s likely valid that this book should be restricted to older kids\u201417-and 18-year-olds. It\u2019s worth noting that this was assigned to only the honors kids because the other passage that the class was reading \u2014 also related to 9\/11 \u2013 was at too easy a reading level. So these poor teachers are trying to find something for advanced kids to read, and they don\u2019t have time, and they\u2019re making a good faith effort to push kids to Meets and Masters because they care (and if our A-F grade is too low, there is outrage over that too). And they pick this award-winning book,” Kuhn wrote.<\/p>\n “They decide one \u2018s—\u2019 is tolerable. They aren\u2019t offended by the word \u2018p—-\u2019 because it literally isn\u2019t a bad word in the context. They get it approved by a colleague,” Kuhn noted.<\/p>\n Kuhn said he was taken aback by the comments in the social media post targeting the teachers who assigned the book.<\/p>\n “And they are called \u2018DEMONS.\u2019 (Ironically, in the comments of the outrage post, they\u2019re also called \u2018a-s—-s,\u2019 which is literally worse than \u2018an–,\u2019 which is one of the words the parent highlighted and took offense to, but nobody scolded the commenter for that vulgarity. What\u2019s good for the goose\u2026 Commenters also typed \u2018wtf\u2019 and \u2018WTH,\u2019 which mean \u2018what the f—\u2019 and \u2018what the hell\u2019 but nobody accused them of \u2018grooming\u2019 children. Selective outrage, anyone.”<\/p>\n Before highlighting the criticism targeted at the book, Kuhn took aim at Senate Bill 2<\/a>, which establishes education savings accounts. Kuhn characterized the bill as providing “vouchers draining public schools.<\/a>”\u00a0<\/p>\n He also criticized Senate Bill 13<\/a>, which requires teachers to “catalogue every book in their classrooms,” and House Bill 8, a policy that changed the state’s standardized testing practice.<\/p>\n The other bills the official highlighted, in particular, are Senate Bill 12<\/a> and House Bill 3372<\/a>.<\/p>\n “There is a political movement to pull the teeth of local officials at schools and on city councils and county commissioners courts so that all we have is centralized state leadership<\/a>. So local yokels like yours truly have to be continually demonized and legislated into submission,” he added.<\/p>\n Since the coronavirus pandemic, school boards and legislatures across the U.S. have passed parental rights bills and other education policies that provide transparency to parents and restrict content being taught in classrooms.<\/p>\n As for the particular social media post that Kuhn referred to, he told Fox News Digital that it had been removed.<\/p>\n CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/p>\n “The original poster has either deleted his post or made his account private (not sure which. I just see that I can\u2019t see any of his posts, and another user that had shared it now is showing something that says the original post is not available). The \u2018demon\u2019 quote was in a comment under another user\u2019s share of the original post. I don\u2019t remember their names, and there\u2019s no way I\u2019ll be able to find it since I can\u2019t go to his original post and click to see who all shared it,” Kuhn told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n Kuhn said the book “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” will be put on hold until it can be reviewed by a committee, which will determine if it is appropriate to be displayed in the district\u2019s library.<\/p>\n “My understanding is that it is rated for ages 14 and up,” Kuhn told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n Read more of this story from FOX News<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n