A friend of mine has a daughter and they recently when on a school trip to DC. The daughter refused to room with another girl on the trip because she was a self confessed lesbian. They are now in a possible legal problem because the lesbians mother is calling it a hate crime.
Dang, that explains the shiner I got when I asked this redhead if she'd like to split a tangerine....
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Now why is that a criteria for inclusion into literary studies?
Me neither. How embarrassing and sad. No wonder kids have very little respect anymore. Its not going to change until the bad guys no longer have the ability to push thier slime to our kids. Its not even informative, its just perverse. How does this stuff get into a school? Or do I even bother to ask?
Check out Amazon.com reviews of this book. The ALA gives a highly positive review (why am I surprised). To the ALA's credit (ha ha) they do limit the age to 7th to 12th grade. I can't even believe some of the words from the book that are used in the review.
I could see this book being appropriate for independent reading for 16+ year olds, but how could it be recommended for 6th graders. Are they out of their minds?
Here is an exerpt sanitized for Free Republic readers -
From Booklist
Gr. 7-12. With more urgency than many YA novels, the poems and brief prose pieces in this fine anthology speak directly in teen voices about boys coming of age. They talk about love and anger ("I woke up p___ed this morning"); about sex ("some good p___y") and jealousy ("You fell for gelboy and his hair"); about the "monster" drugs, family warmth, rejection; conformity, and bullying; about being gay ("queer is more than / c__ks and A.I.D.S.") and accepting that your father is gay. The poetry is rooted in a wide range of neighborhoods, families, and classrooms, and the language is direct and frank, with a rhythm ("I'm / not a / hip hop / Dred / retro / 4-pierced brother") and a physical immediacy in the imagery. Some voices are more private, about secrets, sadness, the weariness of the blues, and the loneliness when a girlfriend leaves ("the photograph torn in half"). In one of the best pieces, a boy thinks about his birth mother ("What if . . . ?"). There are no intrusive illustrations, just the images and music of the words, and lots of white space that makes it easy to browse. Many teens will recognize their search for themselves. Hazel Rochman
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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I don't know if anybody has said this yet, but this is a very black and white concept:
THIS IS NOT A CENSORSHIP ISSUE!
Parents should have the right to remove any book they so choose from public schools libraries, even if it means closing down the public school libraries.
The reason is simple, they are public SCHOOL libraries. The parents DO NOT have the right to remove books from PUBLIC libraries. And if a parent really, REALLY wants their child exposed to the stuff of this article, thay can bloody well get it at the PUBLIC library, where banning such books WOULD be a censorship issue.
There. Censorship rant over.