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Depends pn what they are reading instead. If it’s I Have Two Mommies I would oppose it. If it’s How To Understand The U.S. Tax Code I would support it.
Excuse me, but I see nothing in the article that says anything about "liberal" or "progressive."
In fact, liberals are generally against official censorship.
Unfortunately, you undermine your own credibility with silliness like "Liberalism is a mental disorder." A general definition of liberalism is that it favors civil liberties and is against authoritarianism, and you'd have to be crazy yourself to believe that those beliefs are crazy.
The article says those book no longer will be required reading but they will still be available in the school library for those who want to read them on their own time. I don't see a problem with that. Times change and school curriculum don't stay the same over the decades.
The books are being removed from the required reading list for students.
They will "continue to be available in school libraries and can be optional reading, but beginning next school year, they will be replaced by other books that address the same topics."
They didn't ban the books from the library or school -- just took them off the curriculum. Too bad -- great opportunity for discussion -- especially because of the concepts, language, etc.
They didn't ban the books from the library or school -- just took them off the curriculum. Too bad -- great opportunity for discussion -- especially because of the concepts, language, etc.
But the books aren't banned. That's important.
Who said they were banned? It’s a thread about the gutless wonders who have taken over the public school system.
They don’t want any conflict for their students because no one ever taught them how to handle conflict themselves.
Private schools will continue to include To Kill a Mockingbird and Huck Finn in their REQUIRED course work and great learning and discussion will result.
Who said they were banned? It’s a thread about the gutless wonders who have taken over the public school system.
They don’t want any conflict for their students because no one ever taught them how to handle conflict themselves.
Private schools will continue to include To Kill a Mockingbird and Huck Finn in their REQUIRED course work and great learning and discussion will result.
In the 1970s catcher in the rye was the most banned book. Particularly among conservative communities and Christian private schools.
*sigh* I think it's a shame--TKAM is one of my favorite books, to the point I'm on my fifth copy of the book because I wore out the other four. It's one of those books that it seems every time you read it, you pick up on a nuance maybe you didn't before. For example, when I read it in 6th grade, I didn't quite catch the gist of Mayella talking about her father kissing her--I was 12, and sexual abuse was only just beginning to get talked about publicly at the time. So I thought it was like any parent kissing their child goodnight. Then as I got older, I realized what that meant. And then, as I got even older, I caught on to the fact that Mayella's mother had been dead long enough that even Mayella didn't remember her very well.....but it was implied some of the younger Ewell children were *significantly* younger than Mayella.......
To Kill a Mockingbird was a ground breaking novel about racism long before liberals started losing their minds over it.
This is just disgusting.
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