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<blockquote data-quote="tiredmommy" data-source="post: 309322" data-attributes="member: 1722"><p>I get your point JJJ. Duckie's school has been in the process of updating their collection for the last few years so the principal formed a school-parent committee to review potential purchases and discards. The only rules is that nothing would be labeled as banned because she didn't want to set the precedent in this school. Rather, something could be rejected as inappropriate for the ages and grade levels that the particular school serves.</p><p></p><p>What happens in our school is that the classroom teachers closely monitor what the children check out. They literally look at the titles the student is in line to checkout and ok or reject it (too advanced, not advanced enough, etc). It seems to work well with kids getting books at the appropriate reading level and the subject matter isn't too out there. As a matter of fact, Duckie's kindergarten teacher was concerned about her checking out "The Ten Best Things About Barney" because the teacher didn't know if the subject matter would upset a six year old Duckie. However, Duckie explained that a friend was sad about their pet goldfish dying recently and she wanted to be able to help him feel better. She brought home the book and we read it together through tears.</p><p></p><p>I think my biggest concern about banning books is that the criteria to ban can easily get bigger and bigger. I think we can all agree that sex in elementary school and how to build a bomb in secondary school should be off limits... but where will it stop? Will some parents continue to push a personal agenda? </p><p></p><p>We have recently had our secondary sex ed curriculum altered to be abstinence-based. Now, I have no problem with abstinence since I'm the mom of a young girl. Really. But I also know intuitively that it will not be enough or the appropriate sex education or pregnancy prevention program for many of my community's youth. It's not realistic to these kid's lives. The curriculum change has now hand-tied the adults that these interact with the most throughout the day. They can't say "talk to your parents about getting on birth control". It's a shame. And I think of banning books in the same light.</p><p></p><p>It's really banning ideas, concepts, and new ways of looking at life. It's banning seeing the world from another perspective or banning seeing the world outside our windows. The potential for abuse is too great for banning to be an accepted practice.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tiredmommy, post: 309322, member: 1722"] I get your point JJJ. Duckie's school has been in the process of updating their collection for the last few years so the principal formed a school-parent committee to review potential purchases and discards. The only rules is that nothing would be labeled as banned because she didn't want to set the precedent in this school. Rather, something could be rejected as inappropriate for the ages and grade levels that the particular school serves. What happens in our school is that the classroom teachers closely monitor what the children check out. They literally look at the titles the student is in line to checkout and ok or reject it (too advanced, not advanced enough, etc). It seems to work well with kids getting books at the appropriate reading level and the subject matter isn't too out there. As a matter of fact, Duckie's kindergarten teacher was concerned about her checking out "The Ten Best Things About Barney" because the teacher didn't know if the subject matter would upset a six year old Duckie. However, Duckie explained that a friend was sad about their pet goldfish dying recently and she wanted to be able to help him feel better. She brought home the book and we read it together through tears. I think my biggest concern about banning books is that the criteria to ban can easily get bigger and bigger. I think we can all agree that sex in elementary school and how to build a bomb in secondary school should be off limits... but where will it stop? Will some parents continue to push a personal agenda? We have recently had our secondary sex ed curriculum altered to be abstinence-based. Now, I have no problem with abstinence since I'm the mom of a young girl. Really. But I also know intuitively that it will not be enough or the appropriate sex education or pregnancy prevention program for many of my community's youth. It's not realistic to these kid's lives. The curriculum change has now hand-tied the adults that these interact with the most throughout the day. They can't say "talk to your parents about getting on birth control". It's a shame. And I think of banning books in the same light. It's really banning ideas, concepts, and new ways of looking at life. It's banning seeing the world from another perspective or banning seeing the world outside our windows. The potential for abuse is too great for banning to be an accepted practice. [/QUOTE]
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