Posted on 10/04/2006 6:54:36 AM PDT by SmoothTalker
"A suburban county that sparked a public outcry when its libraries temporarily eliminated funding for Spanish-language fiction is now being asked to ban Harry Potter books from its schools."
"Laura Mallory, a mother of four, told a hearing officer for the Gwinnett County Board of Education on Tuesday that the popular fiction series is an "evil" attempt to indoctrinate children in the Wicca religion."
"Board of Education attorney Victoria Sweeny said that if schools were to remove all books containing reference to witches, they would have to ban "Macbeth" and "Cinderella.""
Books in the Harry Potter series also were the most frequently challenged of the 21st century. The ALA reports there were more than 3,000 attempts to remove books from schools and public libraries between 2000 and 2005. Challenges are defined as formal, written complaints filed with a library or school requesting that materials be removed because of content or appropriateness. According to Judith F. Krug, director of the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom, the number of challenges reflects only incidents reported, and for each reported, four or five remain unreported.
What I don't get is something else in the article about other banned books. It says the Captain Underpants series is also on the most banned list. What is allegedly so bad about the Captain Underpants books??
sigh....Muggles...
The name?
BTW, I had a dream the other day where I managed to get a copy of the next Harry Potter book. It was a very vivid full color dream. I remember holding the book, and its colors and liking the art and title.
Sadly, it must have been bewitched as I can't remember the graphics or the title...
Bad link.
Your link isn't working. However, I noticed that the quote says "challenged," while you wrote "banned." That is not the same thing, although it's the conclusion to which liberals hope you will leap.
If you'll check the article at the link, we can find out whether it says any of the challenged books were actually removed from facilities. I doubt they were.
I had a dream about a bunch of little boys running around in their undies. No, wait, I was awake ... my life is the nightmare!
LOL!
I would recommend this person just stop going to the library if she finds what's on the shelves to be so offensive.
:-(
I have five sons, three of them 4-and-under. If I saw a "Captain Underpants" book in my library, I might pitch a fit just on general principles, and the same with the "Once Upon a Potty" videos :-).
So true.
As I expected, there is nothing to indicate that any of these books was actually "banned" from anywhere. The ALA (so liberal that they make the NEA look like the Constitutuion Party) is deliberately obscuring the reality.
I would rather have the Spanish-language section restored than have Laura Mallory determine what library books my children can read.
...well, if I had children, that is...
Harry Potter is fine. Fantasy.
Unfortunately, the wiccans at my local library use every new HP book to create huge displays of books about "real" wiccan beliefs. I've yet to see "one" christian book promoted, let alone a whole display.
What a loser.
It's all for the children, you know.
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