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Aylee -> RE: Yielding To Censorship (8/6/2011 8:40:23 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Arpig
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its a local issue. No, that's where you are wrong, it's not a local issue, it's a universal human issue, it matters when it is done anywhere. Republic MO, or Abudagh Iran. Wrong is wrong.
It is a local issue because it is a curriculum issue for the public school system. Curriculum issues should be decided at the local level.
As a person who has never cared much for Vonnegut, I am all for Slaughterhouse Five, being removed from the literature curriculum. They can read that badly written novel on their own time.
As far as it being removed from the school library shelves, that seems strange. If it is a mixed school library (all k-12 students have access) I can kind of see the reasoning. It would be more sensible to make it a restricted book that requires a parental permission note. If it is just a high school library, then I see no point in pulling it off the shelves. It is not as though with ten bucks a kid cannot just go buy it at the bookstore.
I do wonder how many of the parents and school board members and teachers (other than the specific class teachers where it was being taught), have actually read the book.
Would I purchase a copy for Butterhead? No. We have one, if not two, copies already. I see no reason to buy a third.
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