Ga. board: Harry Potter books can stay

AP ^ | 12-14-06 | GREG BLUESTEIN

[Artemis Webb]

Common sense is on life support. But it it alive.

[Artemis Webb]

is*

[MikefromOhio]

Mallory, who has three children in elementary school, has worked for more than a year to ban the books from Gwinnett schools, claiming the popular fiction series is an attempt to indoctrinate children in witchcraft.

Yeah. Let's also ban Wile E. Coyote because he makes our children think you could survive a fall down a canyon wall....

I hate people I really do....

[GSlob]

"The kind of stuff in these books — murder and greed and violence. Why do they have to read them in school?"
Precisely because it is "murder and greed and violence". As a German proverb puts it, whatever a little Hansel does not learn, the grown-up Hans will not know.

[AnAmericanMother]

Some idiot in a three piece suit was marching up and down on the sidewalk by the state capitol at 8 a.m. this morning carrying a big sign that said "Harry Potter Go to Hell."

I pointed and laughed uproariously.

Just my small contribution.

[Central Scrutiniser]

Fundies need to get the hell out of public school decisions.

[Huntress]

I wonder if this lady has even bothered to read any of the Harry Potter books.

[cripplecreek]

I pointed and laughed uproariously.

[Sender]

Umm, it's called getting children to want to read a book larger than a comic book.

[cripplecreek]

Huck Finn pulled after parent complains.

http://www.lsj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061103/NEWS05/611030322/1006/news05

[andyssister]

From what I've read on Mugglenet, no, she hasn't read the books. They're too long.

Don't know if it's true.

[andyssister]

potter ping!

[megatherium]

My brother wasn't going to let his children read these books. I told him it is all just harmless fantasy; I told him I tried to do the magic spells and none of them worked. It's all just made up.

[MikefromOhio]

I'd seriously doubt that she actually has...

She's probably only seen the movie promos....

[Soothesayer]

I hope her kids sneak into their witch costumes on Halloween and then run into her room brandishing live black cats.

[Grizzled Bear]

ban Wile E. Coyote because he makes our children think you could survive a fall down a canyon wall
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Every kid knows you can't survive a fall down a canyon wall...unless, of course, you are wearing your patented ACME springs!

[reg45]

she hasn't read the books. They're too long.

and you probably have to be able to read at the sixth grade level to understand them.

[oldenuff2no]

These books are the children's classics of the next century. My wife is a teacher and all of her kids love these books. The kids do know the difference between fantasy and reality.

[swmobuffalo]

"Fundies need to get the hell out of public school decisions."

Guess your "free thought" doesn't extend to "fundies" huh?

[SuziQ]

I told him I tried to do the magic spells and none of them worked. It's all just made up.

Well I hope he accepted your first hand account! ;o)

I have read all of them at least twice, except for "Half Blood Prince". For some reason, I just got busy and never read it again. Will have to do that after Christmas, when I'll have a little more time.