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[โ€“] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 87 points 1 year ago (20 children)

My high school had a rule about the "difficulty" of books you could read. You weren't supposed to read too high "above your grade". I assumed this rule was something with the school library and their Accelerated Reader program.

Nope! Tried to give me ISS because I was reading "Screwjack", which I brought from home. It wasn't even in class! I was a fucking junior. A high school junior should be able to handle Hunter S. Thompson.

According to them it was "college level" and therefore I shouldn't be reading it. My father raised absolute hell in that office. Don't think they tried enforcing that rule again.

They also tried bitching about girls tops until a group of very pissed off redneck fathers had questions about how they were touching the students to measure the width.

[โ€“] Fisch@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Who put the "removed" there and what word was it before?

[โ€“] CoderKat@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Taking a guess, your instance (not the authors) has the profanity filter mentioned in https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/622 in effect. You can switch instances to avoid it. IIRC, it's disabled by default now (and isn't active on my instance).

[โ€“] Hhffggshn@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you have a suggestion for a different instance? This will be my fourth one, sigh. I have one beehaw community I follow and some are vanned by the.

[โ€“] CoderKat@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I picked my own carefully. Federates with the biggest instances, has downvotes, and no manual verification of signups.

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