I recently read about a Ruth Allen in Bedford County who is attempting to have a book banned from her son's middle school for the foul language it contains.

I believe this is a good step forward. I believe we should celebrate this woman for shielding our beloved, innocent youth from the terrors of naughty-people words.

I, too, have been affected by such words. I remember reading "Catch-22" in high school, and after every curse I read, the back of my digestive system exploded as if it were a ketchup packet being trampled upon.

That was a tough read. I don't think I had ever heard or seen a curse word up to that point in my life, thanks to women like Ruth Allen.

Unfortunately, some delusional teacher mistakenly encouraged me to pick up a book with curse words and therefore one lacking in literary and moral merit.

We should eliminate such teachers, along with the books they suggest, from our school system.

Jacob Brown

Stafford