Posted on 01/28/2010 10:21:23 AM PST by SoonerStorm09
TULSA, Okla. -- A book that was challenged as inappropriate by the parents of a Union Public Schools elementary school student will remain on library shelves, the district's Board of Education ruled Wednesday night.
The board voted 3-1 to keep the book, "Buster's Sugartime," which the parents said was inappropriate because it alluded to a same-sex relationship.
The issue went to the board after the parents took their concerns to the district's Materials Review Committee in October.
The committee voted 6-1 to keep the book on the school's library shelves.
The parents, Don and Mary Danz, then appealed that ruling to the school board.
"Buster's Sugartime," by Marc Brown, is a condensed version of a 2005 episode of the "Postcards from Buster" series that airs on PBS in which the anthropomorphic animated rabbit Buster visits Vermont during "Mud Season" to learn about the state and how maple syrup is made.
Most of the "Sugartime" episode is devoted to Buster's following the children of a same-sex couple as they play, make cookies, visit a dairy, have dinner and make maple syrup.
(Excerpt) Read more at tulsaworld.com ...
Send your offspring to the government’s school for indoctrination...It is hypocrisy to complain about the materials used for indoctrination...
Geez, don’t go after the book, go after the librarian. Get the librarian fired then call in favors to get a librarian of moral values hired. In the mean time, books get lost all the time...
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