{"id":1864912,"date":"2023-03-01T16:34:07","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T21:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1864912"},"modified":"2023-03-01T16:36:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T21:36:18","slug":"11-year-old-shocks-school-board-reads-aloud-from-sexually-graphic-book-he-got-from-middle-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/11-year-old-shocks-school-board-reads-aloud-from-sexually-graphic-book-he-got-from-middle-school\/","title":{"rendered":"11-Year-Old Shocks School Board, Reads Aloud From Sexually Graphic Book He Got From Middle School"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F11-year-old-shocks-school-board-reads-aloud-from-sexually-graphic-book-he-got-from-middle-school%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1864912&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>A Maine boy aged 11 years old shocked his school board by taking the microphone and reading aloud from a book that he found in his middle school library.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/02\/28\/knox-zajac-reads-aloud-from-pornographic-book-at-school-board-meeting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Report<\/a> published by The New York Post, Knox Zajac, a sixth grader, spoke before a mid-February meeting of the Board of Windham Raymond School District, also known as RSU-14 \u2014 and as he stepped up to the lectern he explained that he was going to read a page from the book.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH (<em>It contains explicit sexual language and profanity<\/em>):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wow. Knox Zajac, an 11-year-old Maine boy, confronted his school board after reading pornographic material found at his middle school. <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fzV5Q6zaRL\">pic.twitter.com\/fzV5Q6zaRL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 1776 Project PAC (@1776ProjectPac) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/1776ProjectPac\/status\/1630675434009403395?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 28, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The book he read from \u2014 which has a recommended age limit of 14-and-up \u2014 was called &#8220;Nick and Charlie&#8221; and was written by Alice Oseman. It follows the story of two teen boys who get involved in sexual experimentation after sneaking alcohol from their parents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This book was on the stand. I would like to read you a page,&#8221; Zajac said, and he began to read directly from the book.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;\u2018My back over my hips. I asked if he should take his clothes off. He was saying yes before I finished my sentence. He&#8217;s pulling off my T-shirt, laughing when I can&#8217;t undo his shirt buttons. He&#8217;s undoing my belt. I&#8217;m reaching into his bedside drawer for a condom,'&#8221; he read.<\/p>\n<p>Zajac continued reading to the end of the page and then explained what happened when he, three years below the recommended age for that particular book, went to the librarian to check it out and take it home.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I rented it out and showed my dad it, the librarian asked if I wanted more and if I wanted a graphic novel version,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The boy&#8217;s father, Adam Zajac, reportedly spoke up at the same meeting \u2014 and he also complained about how accessible sexually explicit material was to children who were well below the recommended ages for such content.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is bulls***,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We do not need to be having literature that is showing boys how to s*** d*** \u2026 you may think the schools know what&#8217;s best for our children. You know who knows best for our children? The parents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Knox Zajac explained in a subsequent interview that he had taken the book to the school board because it made him &#8220;uncomfortable&#8221; to have something so graphic readily available to himself and other students his age.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sixth-grader Knox Zajac tells <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WGME?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WGME<\/a> why he read from the controversial book &#8220;Nick and Charlie&#8221; during a recent school board meeting in Maine. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JlGPgBOedy\">pic.twitter.com\/JlGPgBOedy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Crisis in the Classroom (@CITClassroom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CITClassroom\/status\/1630958292926185473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2023<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An 11-year-old boy from Maine shocked his school board when he took the microphone during a meeting and read aloud from a sexually graphic book he said he had found on display at his middle school library. 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