Man says free speech rights violated in arrest over book | Local News - WMUR Home: GILFORD, N.H. —Some parents in Gilford are voicing concerns about a book with a risque love scene that high school students are reading.
School officials said the book "Nineteen Minutes" by New Hampshire
author Jodi Picoult has important themes, but some parents disagree.
Parent William Baer was handcuffed and escorted out of a meeting held
Monday night in which the book was discussed.
School officials
said the book has occasionally been part of the curriculum since 2007,
so the controversy came as something of a surprise. But some parents
objected to page 313 in the book, which describes a sexual encounter.
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