Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe MELBOURNE, March 5 (UPI) -- Parents of Australian seventh-graders at a Melbourne school have objected to an assignment that involves a novel containing an obscenity. Opposition politicians and parents groups said the novel, "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," by English writer Mark Haddon, is inappropriate for seventh-graders at Melbourne Girls' College because it contains a four-letter profane reference to the female anatomy, The Age reported Wednesday. Advertisement "Most men wouldn't say that word in front of women and most women don't use the word at all -- and there is a reason for that: It's not socially acceptable," said parent Peter Taylor, who added that his daughter will not be reading the book. Shadow Education Minister Martin Dixon said the language makes the murder-mystery inappropriate for the age group. "Students shouldn't come across that language in school texts, even more so when you are talking about year sevens," Dixon said.
