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Kodomo no Jikan.

Controversy? Hmm, I'll bite. Decided to give the first episode a try (at least since no one seems to take it down from YouTube). I was expecting horrid things, but objectively speaking, there are several things that don't make it nearly as controversial as it sounds, and the main one is the ambiguous age of most anime characters - the characters designs (Rin does not look a lot younger than Taiga, for example) and seiyuu (obviously the same). At least here they don't claim that "she's in fact 21/200/immortal" (a lotion scene in a last season series was more potentially offensive, seriously).
As to foul language - good grief, just go into a school and listen to what language kids use nowadays. In my time we didn't know swearwords at that age, now some of those kids speak like... they'd been born in a really bad neighbourhood. Teasing the teacher with that seems to be, really, quite realistic. Children are cruel, that's pretty much a truism.
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In short, I think there is other anime that is more worthy of being put under public scrutiny, and so far I find it quite innocent. I'm not a prude, but I think that Kissxsis, for example, is a mindless piece of fanservice for a minor audience with a fetish, while this one tries to show, at least, some kind of depth of relationships and I think actually portrays quite well the hardships of a young teacher.

This is based on ep1 alone. So I was actually wondering if the rest of the show is worth watching. I didn't find it offensive, but then it wasn't hilarious or anything, so I don't know if it's worth my time. As long as things get better (as in, less fanservice and more of solving students' problems - even though the solution to the first problem was sort of easy).