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Downtown 
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
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 Posted - 04/03/2007 : 17:46:45
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Originally posted by BaftaBabe
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Originally posted by damalc
meanwhile, on the censorship front, this just in:
� LOUISVILLE, Ky. _ Students at a Louisville school were told to stop reading a classic novel about slavery after some parents objected to its sexual content and language.
� The principal at Eastern High School told 150 Advance Placement English students to drop "Beloved," Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about antebellum slavery, and start over with "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The move came after at least two parents complained that "Beloved" includes depictions of bestiality, racism and sex. ..."
Oh my God...how did things ever get that far? Thank God for the diligence of those two parents! If it weren't for them, all those kids might learn that there is such a thing as SEX! The horror!
Only in America.
By the way, if anybody would like to tell Principal James Sexton how they feel about this, he can be reached here: [email protected]
Just thought I'd share with you the entire contents of the reply I received from James Sexton -- it was all in capital letters:
YOU DON�T REALLY HAVE A CLUE ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON. GET ALL THE FACTS BEFORE YOU JUMP. NO NOVEL HAS BEEN BANNED. THIS IS ONLY ABOUT PROCEDURES TO CHALLENGE FROM PARENTS OR GUARDIANS. KEEP READING AND YOU WILL UNDERSTAND LATER.
Hmmm ... the thot plickens  
Yeah, he's full of el crappola. He's been trying to claim from the very beginning that he didn't "ban" the book, as students are still allowed to read it if they want to on their own time...but they're not allowed to use it for their Advanced Placement assignment and have to pick a new book to read with about two weeks before the assignment. |
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