It's the titiillating conversations that my students are having about the Twilight series in class that bother me. I've read bits and pieces of each of the books. I think the material is too mature to be in the classroom. Maybe it's because I've got some boys who are just kind of "icky". They are conversations girls should have when there aren't boys around and definitely not in the middle of math!

I don't like the jealousy issues that are in the books. Werewolves and vampires both liking the same chick. Female vampires lusting after Edward and wondering what he sees in a human.

Today I read part of the last book. Edward leaves Bella with bruises on the first night of their honeymoon. No, it wasn't terribly graphic, but I don't want my ten year old girls thinking that sex is violent. Frankly, I don't want them thinking about sex at all yet.

So parents are letting kids read books like this, go to R rated movies and play Grand Theft Auto. But they won't let me take them on a field trip on a research vessel - because it's a boat and they might fall off. Yeah...

Oh and I'm not banning the book.


Veronica