I grew up in a very strict parochial school as well. I had friends in public school whose parents were demanding alternative readings for things like William Faulkner and JD Salinger. I carefully noted each title and made it a point to read everything that they had been assigned in school and wouldn't read. I would get the books from the public library and read them in study halls and the like at school. I had a few teachers who asked if I had blacked out the profanity in the books. I always had the easy response of "I can't; it's a library book."
I was never sent home or in trouble, mostly because many of the teachers were so sheltered that they didn't know what most of the books were about. They always had a vague sense of unease, but they didn't know how to deal with it. It helped that my father was an attorney who would have raised hell if they had tried to send me home for reading. (I was only sent to the parochial school because of the poor quality of public schools in the area).
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