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The Abstinence Teacher - Tom Perrotta
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last updated Jun 16, 2009 08:52PM
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What would Jesus teach? The answer to that question
This book begins with an examination of how the Christian right has expanded its influence over schools in America with Perrotta using a high school in fictional Stonewood Heights as an example. Should abstinence be taught in school? Should prayer be allowed at community sports events? These are some of the questions that the book puts out there, but never really answers, because the point of this book is not to convice you that one side is right over the other.
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not my normal type of book, but i liked it. this one was easy to read and i did not have to think or keep going back to figure out what was going on. i thought it was very similar to Little Children, not great, but perfectly fine stories of "suburbia".
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I could not get into this book at all and didn't end up finishing it.
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