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Originally Posted by graciegirl
At one time the far religious right asked our public school system here in West Chester Ohio to remove the same list, the same books from their shelves. Fortunately there was a huge hue and cry from informed peopleand it didn't happen. What a fuss it was. I hate, loathe, dispise this kind of censorship.
If this is true about Palin. We are done.
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I have got to get out of here. This thing is in my kitchen. GG I watched that one happen.
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Sam,
What you are saying here about schools and required reading lists and your experience -- well I just have to comment on that and then I really will go clean some more.
What your board did I believe is excellent. You made it "optional" and you left it in the library. That is the perfect solution, in my book anyway, for how to handle things for school reading. Parents should have the right to make decisions for and with their own child. But not everybody else's.
I watched a censorship thing many years ago over "Of Mice and Men." I am a big fan of Steinbeck. Anyway, those who wanted the book banned just kept calling it "the cuss book." That's all they had to say. I almost began to feel sorry for them. "Of Mice and Men" stayed in the curriculum. The English teacher who did the defense was eloquent.
Sam, you did it right, girl. That's how it should be in a school. Choice. Not required. They don't want to read "Of Mice and Men, give them a choice. Maybe "The Red Pony." Still Steinbeck. But the horse did not cuss as I recall.
Boomer, still sounding a whole lot like Marian today
