Cimorene

Ouch. >.<"

I really feel for her. People often comment on how my line of work (studying to become a special needs teacher for children with multible disabilities, in the meantime working with children who are refugees from other countries and/or from families with a history of abuse and neglect) must be really hard for a teacher - but really, personally I believe teachers like your sister have got a much harder job, because at least with my students, I will never have classes who are supposed to be halfway intelligent and yet turn out to be stupid like that. (Of course, I will probably also never have to teach more or less controversial stuff either, seeing as "Harold and the Purple Crayon" might actually be appropriate reading material for my students...)

I really hope she won't have any more classes of that sort!

Sadly, America is not the only country where that kind of thing might happen, though. I remember that when Michael Ende's "Der satanarchäolügenialkohöllische Wunschpunsch" ("The Night of Wishes: or, The Satanarchaeolidealcohellish Notion Potion" in English) was published in 1989 there were people here in Germany, including school principals, who wanted the book forbidden on the accounts that it dealt with witchcraft and satanism and had human villains and animal heroes... There are stupid, medieval-minded people everywhere.