Because they might actually learn to question?

JJ of Unrepentant Old Hippie notes the uproar at a Catholic College ... COLLEGE .. where parents are upset that Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" is required reading:

"Atwood is known in Canada as a major figure in the ultra-feminist, anti-religious and largely state-funded literary establishment. When it was first published by McClelland and Stewart in 1985, the book was heavily criticized, largely outside Canada, as an anti-Christian screed relying for its appeal on the titillation provided by its frequent expletives and graphically depicted sex-acts, and a heavy-handed feminist ideology."

Ka-Boom! The sound of a thousand Catholic crania exploding as parents go apeshit hysterical that their little angels are being exposed to this (multi-award-winning) feminist filth. Their protest site screams about the novel's premise: a dystopian future society taken over by extreme fundies, where abortion and contraception aren't allowed, and "lower-caste" women function as living incubators for the rich. No way do they want their kids exposed to that... Gee. I. Wonder. Why.

I thought you sent your child to college to learn how to deal with the world on his own, you know, to learn to think for himself?