Canadian Classic Too Much for 17 yr olds?

Robert Edwards says if students repeated some of the words from Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale in the school halls, they'd be suspended, so he questions why it is okay in the classroom.

And what about the foul language, the anti-Christian overtones, the violence and sexual degradation, asks the parent who launched a formal complaint about the Canadian novel. Don't they violate the Toronto board's policies of respect and tolerance?

"If you look at the board's policies, it goes to these great lengths to talk about respect and not using profane language, and in fact so do the policies at Lawrence Park Collegiate," where Edwards' 17-year-old son was studying the book in his Grade 12 English class.

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I say, this parent is a flake if he thinks this book is too much for a grade 12 english class. Lets get real people. It is one thing to read certain words in a piece of literature, and quite another to be walking around using the same words inappropriately.

If this classic Canadian literature does not abide the rules of the Toronto School Board then perhaps the rules need to be changed. Oh and maybe this parent needs to find a job or a life or something.