Agreed. And what they find in the dictionary is going to be a lot less damaging than what they find online or from their friends. Heck, maybe they'll actually learn something useful in the process. I can remember as a youngster looking up, with delight, the "F word" in the dictionary, giggling at the fact that it was there, but not coming out of it knowing anything I didn't know before. It's unlikely any child who had never heard that word would stumble upon it by chance. And if so, they'd breeze right by it, not knowing it was something rebellious enough to repeat.

As far as I'm concerned, banning the dictionary is a nod to lazy parents and teachers who don't want to take the time to actually discuss such matters as sex or foul language with their children. And in that laziness they're taking away a sea of interesting benign language that could expand a child's ability to communicate and think in a creative manner.

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