A 15 year old sophomore at Caney Creek High School was told to read Fahrenheit 451 for class. She was offended by it.

“The book had a bunch of very bad language in it,” Diana Verm said. “It shouldn’t be in there because it’s offending people. … If they can’t find a book that uses clean words, they shouldn’t have a book at all.” She said she was offended by “the cussing in it and the burning of the Bible.”

She refused to read the book and was given an alternate book to read. However, she had also complained to her father who decided that the book should be banned.

“With God’s name in vain being in there, that’s the number one reason,” said Diana’s father Alton Verm. “There’s no reason for it being read.”

Alton Verm has filed a “Request for Reconsideration of Instructional Materials” with the school, trying to get it removed from the rounds there. In the complaint filed against the school by Alton Verm, he listed each objected item line by line, complete with individual page numbers. Besides bad language and violence, Verm lists “downgrading Christians” and “talking about our firemen” as reasons the book should be banned. Verm has also admitted he has never read the book.

Of course, keep in mind that the book was assigned specifically during National Banned Book Week.

I mean, does it get any more ironic, in a non-Canadian way?

(sourced from: abc13.com (KTRK of Houston) and The Houston Community Courier)