Apparently 4j middle school students are reading a book called The Giver. In chapter 19, the main character practices infanticide on the lighter-weight of two twins and sugarcoats it by calling it "release." Absolutely sickening selection of a book. And then an assignment in a different class is to bake cookies, this coming a day after kids fattened up on Halloween candy. I think I'd rather that kids not have school buildings to go to, because more and more commonly the material presented in those buildings is garbage. And with the shortest school year in America these buildings often sit vacant anyway.