Texting etiquette with Tatum Hunter:  1)Think of group texts like a dinner party 2)We’re done fighting over capital letters and punctuation  3)Responses aren’t mandatory, but acknowledgments are nice  4)Don’t be a texting wet blanket  5)No scary mysteries  6)It’s okay to get serious  7) Respect workplace texting boundaries  8) Don’t text during important real-world moments

Jason Tharp wants to write books for weird kids — because he was one. On April 6, as Tharp prepared to read “It’s Okay to Be a Unicorn!” to students the next day at an elementary school in the Buckeye Valley Local School District, north of Columbus, he got a call from the principal saying higher-ups didn’t want him reading the book.

“I just straight up asked him, ‘Does somebody think I made a gay book?’ ” Tharp said. “And he said, ‘Yes. … The concern is that you’re coming with an agenda to recruit kids to become gay.’ ”

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