District stuck with foul-mouthed textbooks

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Oct. 5 (UPI) -- School officials in Grand Rapids, Mich., may have to take a razor blade to new English textbooks to remove some spicy language deemed inappropriate for kids.

The district bought 140 copies of a literary anthology for advanced-placement students at City High for $60 each, but discovered about 70 pages worth of “F” bombs and sexual situations that officials want removed.

The Grand Rapids Press said Friday that the district wants to return the books to the publisher. If it can’t, the pages will have to be removed before they reach the classroom.

The salty subject matter is contained in the Pulitzer Prize-winning 2002 play “Topdog/Underdog."

The newspaper said the Board of Education is itself “torn” between the idea of exposing the children of the taxpayers to obscenities and ripping out pages of a literature textbook,