[LM_NET] Where do you draw the line between suitability and pornography?

[Tracie Clarke <tclarke@HARNETT.K12.NC.US>]

the attached advertisement is found on the last page of SLAP magazine for the month 
of June 2005

this mag is very popular with middle schoolers; however, the sexual and deviantly 
portrayed skater culture seems to raw, graphic and exploratory for my middle school 
audience; there is explicit language, inuendo, sexual situations, profanity, etc. 
throughout the magazine (I thought it was intended for a wider demographic and a 
younger audience)

I want to protect innocence (what's left of it - hanging by a thread) and free 
speech.  I welcome your comments and insights 

Tracie Clarke
Media Coordinator
Coats-Erwin Middle School, Dunn, NC
tclarke@harnett.k12.nc.us

"Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that
of an ignorant nation." Walter Cronkite

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