Concerning & Potentially Concerning Content

When you read through this concerning content, keep in mind the target audience and that all of this is all packed into a very, very short set of words and pages. The primary concerning item here is the main character’s attitude. When Junie B.’s mom and teacher are talking and don’t hear her at first she yells, “YEAH; ONLY WHERE IS THE STUPID SMELLY BUS GOIN’ TO BE”? She refuses to talk to another girl at the bus stop because the girl is from another street than hers. She covers her ears and stomps her feet. She refers to a boy who is scared as ‘babyish’ and comments that she can beat him up. She calls a girl saving a seat on the bus for her friend a mean girl. She starts to unzip a boys backpack and when he tells her to stop she says she hates him, something she proceeds to repeat multiple times. She says she hates the bus, calls crying and napping something only babies do, calls the principle a ‘baldy’. She refers to many things as stupid (stupid chair, stupid color, stupid bus, stupid dumb circle). She peeks in the boy’s bathroom. She sneaks off and hides in the school from her teacher and then after school is closed for the day goes around going through the various school rooms. The other characters we meet aren’t much better. All the kids on the bus push to get off the bus. A boy says, “PU I smell you” and “PU I smell your feet”. We barely ever see an adult correcting any of this or showing it is wrong.