Two quick challenge stories.

• In California, a 12-year-old brought Prep home from school, people were upset, the story made Fox News.

• The use of The Kite Runner in a 10th grade English class is being challenged in North Carolina. The conflict sounds like the usual humdrum challenge, but I enjoyed the comments of the local Methodist minister (his daughter is in the class)—he reminded me a whole lot of the fabbity-fab Rev. Ellerby in Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes.