More bad news from Banned Books Week:
Irony, thy name is Unthinking and Ignorant Parent . . . Scott, here’s a dad (and mom) who need to be disengaged, if not from their own child’s education, then certainly from “public education!”
A Caney Creek High School dad is fired up because the Conroe Independent School District uses the book “Fahrenheit 451” as classroom reading material.
Alton Verm, of Conroe, objects to the language and content in the book. His 15-year-old daughter Diana, a CCHS sophomore, came to him Sept. 21 with her reservations about reading the book because of its language.
“The book had a bunch of very bad language in it,” Diana Verm said. “It shouldn’t be in there because it’s offending people. … If they can’t find a book that uses clean words, they shouldn’t have a book at all.”
Hmmm, maybe if we piped in a clean smell while they look at dirty words in books, parents would like it better?Or would the opposite work better? Cognitive science is so interesting to those of us who think . . .
Rep. Lasee: teachers should pack heat
5 10 2006Wanna bet he calls himself a pro-life pol, except packing heat and shooting folks who seem to deserve it should be considered personal choice? And it’s FOR THE CHILDREN of course . . .
From the Univ. of Wisconsin Badger-Herald:
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