Given this sort of reading material, the kids might as well sit around with Penthouse Forum:

(CNSNews.com) - Parents in Deerfield, Ill., are upset that a local high school is using books in advanced English classes this spring that they say are laced with graphic sexual content, pervasive expletives and mockery of religion.

Worse, the books - “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes (Parts 1 & 2)” - are required reading for advanced placement English students at Deerfield High School, but a parents’ group wants them removed.

“Who would have ever thought that we would be handing out pornography in public schools?” asked Lora Sue Hauser, executive director of North Shore Student Advocacy, and a Deerfield parent.

“The fact that this was required is even more astonishing,” she told Cybercast News Service.

Hauser cites numerous examples of offensive passages from the text, including the following:

Man: What do you want?
Louis: I want you to f*** me, hurt me, make me bleed.
Man: I want to.
Louis: Yeah?
Man: I want to hurt you.
Louis: F*** me.
Man: Yeah.
Louis: Hard?
Man: Yeah. You been a bad boy?

(They begin to f***.)

(Louis slips his hand down the front of Joe’s pants. They embrace more tightly. Louis pulls his hand out, smells and tastes his fingers, and then holds them for Joe to smell ... they kiss again.)

Hauser said her group formally challenged the use of the books in school, and a school district committee reviewed their challenge.

I’ve got a pretty open mind when it comes to literature for high school-aged students, but I doubt there’s any real educational purpose being served here by such graphic reading material.

Certainly such graphic reading material relating to heterosexual relations would be almost universally rejected in schools.  So just because this material relates to homosexuals is no reason to give it an exception.

But, really, this is the sort of thing school choice would solve.  Don’t like your kids reading gay porno in their literature classes?  Take your kids and your school voucher to another school, or keep the voucher and homeschool.  Do you want your kids reading gay porno in their literature class?  Then keep them right where they’re at.

With choice, everyone wins.  Except teacher’s unions, of course, which would see the number of their dues-paying members plummet.  But why should we put the priorities of teacher’s unions, and even teachers, over the education priorities of our children?