An 11-year-old sixth grader in Windham, Maine, read aloud during a recent school board meeting from a book that shocked him and adults.
Knox Zajac shared a passage from the illustrated romance for teens, called Nick and Charlie, he found and checked out at his school library, the Maine Wire reported Thursday.
WATCH: A brave 6th grade student reads a sexually explicit book in front of the school board. The book was on display in the Windham Middle School library.
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In the book, two teenage boys steal wine from their parents and experiment sexually with each other. Author Alice Oseman describes the pair as “the perfect couple” on her website.
it’s being published in lots of countries around the world! I recommend checking out this page on my website, which has the international editions listed, and more will be added in the future: https://t.co/S7LfZfsBJr
— Alice Oseman Updates (@AliceOseman) August 4, 2022
Many parents are unaware of what is happening inside the school, the student’s father, Adam Zajac, told the Wire.
“What I don’t understand is how we have books in the middle school library that adults would be fired for having at work, or potentially prosecuted for sharing with children given their pornographic content. It’s smut, really,” he added.
During Knox’s read aloud of the book that is for 14 years and up, the text said, “My back over my hips as I asked if we should take our clothes off… he’s undoing my belt, I’m reaching into his bedside drawer for a condom… But this reminds me so much of the first time we had sex.”
The boy also noted that when he checked the book out, the librarian said if he liked it, she had similar titles for him to try.
Rumble users commented on the video, one person writing, “This is known as ‘The normalization of perversion.’”
“Kid should have thrown the book on the floor infront of the groomers for them to keep, that filth has no place in any school, good job, kid, good job, parents, youre raising him right,” another commented.
Per the Wire report, Maine law prohibits distributing obscene material to children, but does include an exception if the material is given to children at their school.
A few months ago, parents in Dearborn, Michigan, protested sexually explicit books children could read in their public schools, Breitbart News reported.
In November, a school board member in Frisco, Texas, demanded a speaker stop reading aloud from a pornographic book because a child was in attendance, even though the book was available to children within that district, according to the outlet.
UNREAL. Parent in @friscoisd reads from a pornographic book available to kids. A board member stops her and says “there’s a child in our board room.”
They acknowledge it’s inappropriate to read in front of children but these books can be in the school library. Make it make sense pic.twitter.com/VwpUBWOYnb
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 17, 2022
“Parents want age-appropriate limitations on access to these books — if they’re to be in the library at all. But most members of the school board disagree, and some community members think the board is taking steps to limit the involvement of parents in public meetings,” the outlet said.
