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"Let this year be over..."
(set 16 days ago)
Location: Where my bills arrive
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Originally Posted by JohKnip
It is still happening folks...and it is not going away.
Here is video of an angry parent presenting this to revelation to a school board that will go on to do nothing. Location: Barrington, IL. I'm curious to get middle-age mom's take on this seeing as this is presumably her school district.
Also here are pictures from the book. Thankfully they are censored because if it wasn't C-D probably wouldn't allow it to be posted here (but it is A-Okay in schools apparently )
This book was previously removed from schools at Fairfax County Public Schools, pending review, and after review...guess what? It was approved for reinstatement at the school.
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Every school district has its policy and as your link shows Fairfax did review the books in question IAW that policy. Whether you agree or not with their conclusion is your issue, are you even a parent with school aged children in that district. Both were approved for the high school level and parents that are concerned can restrict their child from accessing those books that's still their choice.
As for the Barrington Parent I respect her right to speak to the board and present her objection to a selection, she can submit a challenge for the book so it can be reviewed IAW their policies.
Nowhere is any book mandatory and as a parent she is more than in her right to say her child won't read that book, but she doesn't have the right to choose for other parents.
It is easier said than done but not impossible. As a parent what are your values? Are they strong enough that you will stand behind them. If the public school was teaching, promoting things that went against my values, I would pull my kids. Make any sacrifices, give up any luxury or extras to pay tuition to a school more inclined to my views.
Some parents have more then one child.....nowadays,it isn`t giving up extras, it`s giving up food and clothing, gas to get to work, the high cost of heating their home. As I said before, these people are paying high taxes for these schools.
Every day we see parents attending school board meetings, protesting what is being taught in schools.
Some parents have more then one child.....nowadays,it isn`t giving up extras, it`s giving up food and clothing, gas to get to work, the high cost of heating their home. As I said before, these people are paying high taxes for these schools.
Every day we see parents attending school board meetings, protesting what is being taught in schools.
Yep and especially difficult for the working poor to just homeschool or put their kid in private school.
It is still happening folks...and it is not going away.
Here is video of an angry parent presenting this to revelation to a school board that will go on to do nothing. Location: Barrington, IL. I'm curious to get middle-age mom's take on this seeing as this is presumably her school district.
Also here are pictures from the book. Thankfully they are censored because if it wasn't C-D probably wouldn't allow it to be posted here (but it is A-Okay in schools apparently )
This book was previously removed from schools at Fairfax County Public Schools, pending review, and after review...guess what? It was approved for reinstatement at the school.
A neighbor sent me the link to the video and I watched it on YouTube, last night.
As I understand it, the district board does not approve inclusion/ exclusion of specific books in school libraries.
Not clear who makes the decision. And the sole teacher recommending one of the books as summer reading to her 6 th grade class is waaaaay over the top. Insanity.
There is a world of difference between “inclusion” and the content of the books in question.
There appears to be two issues, certain books and explicit co-ed sex education. As I understand it, the states compels sex education and leaves “the what and when” to each of the 852 districts. .
The July meeting will be a door buster.
My kids attended private schools and are adults, now.
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"I don't understand. But I don't care, so it works out."
(set 1 day ago)
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Originally Posted by wesp
How about let them be kids first?
Have you looked at the lists of required reading in your local high school?
The books, IMHO, are often soul-sucking, in both middle and high school required reading.
Kaffir Boy
Night, by Elie Weisel
Shiloh
Hatchet
Holes
and the old classics that leave little kids sobbing:
Old Yeller
Charlotte's Web
Cinderella
I would rather have more gentle offerings, with hope and kindness, than what my kids had to read. And what I had to read, for that matter. The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson. YOUCH.
Most parents don’t disapprove of public schools but can and should speak up when something is wrong. They shouldn’t have to pull their kids out because the school board has made a terrible decision to allow porn in the school library.
These questions.
I agree. This is where I would start, at the school board. No you shouldn’t have to pull your kids from school.
Have you looked at the lists of required reading in your local high school?
The books, IMHO, are often soul-sucking, in both middle and high school required reading.
Kaffir Boy
Night, by Elie Weisel
Shiloh
Hatchet
Holes
and the old classics that leave little kids sobbing:
Old Yeller
Charlotte's Web
Cinderella
I would rather have more gentle offerings, with hope and kindness, than what my kids had to read. And what I had to read, for that matter. The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson. YOUCH.
Do you think children should be exposed to or have access to pornographic magazines?
The reason I ask is because you seem to think sexually explicit material is fine for kids, or at least much less damaging to kids than learning about slavery or the holocaust. Am I wrong in my analysis of what you are saying?
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