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Motherbear, you said:

To: plan2succeed.org

"The issue is not censorship, not privacy, it's how to get the town to do what the citizens want instead of what a union of porn-pushing librarians want. Please learn more at www.plan2succeed.org then help us. Thank you."

DITTO! We homeschool, now, but before we did, I was absolutely shocked at what was in the local middle school library. Some of the worst offending books had glowing recommendations on the back jacket from....you guessed it....the ALA!

Most parents are just clueless regarding the liberal organized effort to corrupt their kids.

406 posted on 01/03/2004 4:32:05 PM EST by Motherbear

Sadly, Motherbear, again you are correct. One of our members actually had to leave public school because his kindergartener was given a pornographic book to read. The librarian picked the book out for her as it was the fourth day of school. The library was in a school for K and 1 only. He reported the book to the principal who said the book was worse than he had reported and had it removed. When he asked why a pornographic book was given to his child, the principal said the librararian give it since it was on an ALA list of approved books for kindergarteners! We have since found out the ALA intentionally places pornographic books on its lists for children in what we guess is a sort of affirmative action program for children who have been deprived of pornography there whole lives. We are hoping that eventually we can sue to Township for having to take the child out of public school to prevent the sexualization of the child by the public school librarian. PARENTS, EVEN IN YOUR OWN PUBLIC SCHOOLS THE ALA PRODUCES LISTS OF PORNOGRAPHIC BOOKS FOR YOUR OWN CHILDREN TO READ!!

Here is an article we have on our web site (New York Post - City's Ed. Boobs) and here are our comments that appear there:

"Embarrassed [New York City] Department of Education officials yanked an eye-popping book from 371 middle and high schools because it contains sexually graphic material - including crude street language - that somehow landed on the recommended reading list for students." "[T]he sexual primer was mistakenly put on the list of suggested classroom library books and was delivered to schools." "Parents were outraged." How could this have happened? Could the ALA have recommended the pornographic book to the school in a "Top 10" list? You be the judge: ALA | Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers. Why are librarians pushing pornography on children? That we don't know. Is it a crime in and of itself?

BY THE WAY, DOES ANYONE KNOW WHY THE ALA PUSHES PORNOGRAPHY ON OUR CHILDREN? They say its a child's First Amendment rights. They also say its a parent's place to protect a child, not a librarians. They also say they cannot be held responsible for what's on the Internet. All these are convenient excuses or cover stories. Does anyone know the real reason? Can someone ask "Jimmy from Brooklyn" to see if he might know? Thank you.

All:

Check out this URL: http://www.protectkids.com/donnaricehughes/article_tgn.htm. It includes this:

"Congress said if you're going to take taxpayer dollars for your computer and Internet access then you're going to have to implement technological tools such as filtering in order to prevent, as best you can, illegal materials from coming in through that Internet connection and getting into the hands of kids," she said.

If you consider the books in this list you linked to, ALA | Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, to be pornographic then I guess The Simpsons is pornographic. There were three or four that Amazon.com didn't have so I could find nothing on then but the rest looked pretty tame for teenagers.