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RE: A couple of problems with your conflations

They have banned the books in high school - not kindergarten - school librarians don't bring in the books you mention. Please list the books that has content as you suggest "SF bathhouse for a double soapie or your 5 year old daughter to a strip club on amateur night." That is your imagination and a weird one to bring up.


The books that were banned included MAUS, Harry Potter, To Kill a Mockingbird and 1984 and Lord of the Flies.

Why can't a 14-year-old read those books? They are not forced to read them - it is a CHOICE to go to a library and CHOOSE to take that book out or not. Parents can tell their kids not to take these books out and not to read them. If you as a parent don't want your kid to read Harry Potter on religious grounds that is totally fine by me but why are you saying it is okay for YOU and your elected officials trying to ban Harry Potter so that my kid also can't read the books? One of the approved children's books in grade 4 is called "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe." Jehovah's Witnesses do not want their kids reading that novel. So teachers accommodate those students on religious grounds. So the 28/30 kids who are not Jehovah's Witnesses to that novel as a novel study and another book is chosen for the remaining 2 students. The book is in the school library and the public library.

Those are the books getting banned by your party and this isn't the first region of the country to try it. It is always ALWAYS Republicans trying to ban George Orwell.

If you are worried about age-restricted books which is a valid concern that is fine - you separate the books into sections - 14 and up or 11-13 or under 11 etc. Problem is that kids like to rebel so when you ban something they then tend to want to know why and then seek it out more than they would otherwise (drugs/alcohol are examples). Make it illegal and they want to do it even more. Since MAUS was banned it because a number one bestseller having the exact opposite effect of the Tennessee dimwits - they banned it so now millions of kids are reading the very book they banned.

If the dummies said nothing then the one copy of it would sit in the high school library and maybe be taken out 3 times all year.

Hmm, I think I'll reverse my view - keep banning them!


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