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>>The book was "re-discovered" in 1969 by the counter-culture and promoted in schools. The "hero" left her husband and children for a younger man. When that fell through, she committed suicide rather than return to that dreadful family stuff. Yeah, a great role model for kids....<<

Do all characters in books need to be role models? What about the bad characters?

217 posted on 05/22/2006 2:58:18 PM PDT by gondramB (He who angers you, in part, controls you. But he may not enjoy what the rest of you does about it.)

"Do all characters in books need to be role models? What about the bad characters?"

If they were using the character as an example of how not to act, I could see your point. But why should parents sit idle and let schools promote foul literary characters as examples of virtue? Would you not have a problem with schools promoting the communist manifesto as the way to go on economics and politics? How would you feel about Mein Kampf as a guide to race relations?

Not all values are equal, and once upon a time, schools had enough common sense to recognize this.