No. Carolina county steps back in time; Bans 'Invisible Man'

[Kasept]

Amazing..

http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapt...chool-district

Best quote.. school board member Gary Mason said, “I didn’t find any literary value”..

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Kasept

Best quote.. school board member Gary Mason said, “I didn’t find any literary value”..

My favorite quote:

“It was a hard read,” McDonald said, according to the Courier-Tribune.

Ladies and gentlemen, your NC school board- WAH WAH BOOK WAS TOOOO HARRRRD. BIG WORDS. NO PICTURES. WAH WAH. I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY HE KEEPS TALKING ABOUT THE WHITE LINE ON THE HIGHWAY. IS HE DRIVING? THEN WHERE IS HIS CAR? WAH WAH.

One of the great books of the 20th century and the school board finds it too challenging. Though I wonder if perhaps by "hard," in fact, McDonald means, "black."

My high school assigned it for summer reading before junior year and it was one of my favorites. I haven't read it since then. To the NYPL website!

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

My favorite quote:

Ladies and gentlemen, your NC school board- WAH WAH BOOK WAS TOOOO HARRRRD. BIG WORDS. NO PICTURES. WAH WAH. I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY HE KEEPS TALKING ABOUT THE WHITE LINE ON THE HIGHWAY. IS HE DRIVING? THEN WHERE IS HIS CAR? WAH WAH.

One of the great books of the 20th century and the school board finds it too challenging. Though I wonder if perhaps by "hard," in fact, McDonald means, "black."

My high school assigned it for summer reading before junior year and it was one of my favorites. I haven't read it since then. To the NYPL website!

i can't help but wonder if these school board members also think huck finn should be banned, due to language?

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Danzig

i can't help but wonder if these school board members also think huck finn should be banned, due to language?

I imagine they have no problem with language they most likely use themselves when they think no one is listening.

On a slight tangent- the censoring of the language in some editions of that book also bothers me, because it completely misses the point of what Mark Twain was trying to say.

[dellinger63]

I'd love to read the 12-page complaint letter to the school board written by Kimiyutta Parson, the mother who started all this. An 11th grader is a junior in high school. Meanwhile a school-board affirms her lunacy with the crazy decision to ban it. This has SNL skit written all over it.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

I'd love to read the 12-page complaint letter to the school board written by Kimiyutta Parson, the mother who started all this. An 11th grader is a junior in high school. Meanwhile a school-board affirms her lunacy with the crazy decision to ban it. This has SNL skit written all over it.

It makes me very skeptical about the education this parent had- did this woman not read anything in high school? Did the school board members? My junior year of college, a parent challenged The Catcher in the Rye in my old school district- we were assigned it before the start of 9th grade, and most of the entire high school read it at some point in the curriculum. But a parent wanted it removed. My former English teacher told me the head of the school board made a passionate statement about how that book had helped him through very difficult times when he was a teenager and refused to take it out of the curriculum. It was really moving- school officials really thinking about what is best for the kids, and remembering when they were kids themselves.

[Danzig]

yes, it is...especially when i just read yesterday about the texas school board and their text book debate about creationism being taught.
i read all about the scopes monkey trial not long ago...seems that bit of history and thinking isn't as much in the past as i thought.