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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone on dcum know someone personally impacted by all of this crazy book banning? [/quote]

I’d like to hear from someone who supports these bans to share a story of someone they know who was personally harmed by one of the books banned. [/quote]

Interesting that no one could give specific example of this. [/quote]

Why does someone have to be “personally harmed” for it to be wrong?  Would you like *your* young children exposed to, say, a religion you don’t practice or political opinions you don’t agree with - while in school??  You’d be the first to be outraged about that.  Such hypocrisy.  Read all the sexual books you want with your kids.  Leave mine out of it.[/quote]

We’re talking about high school. Do you think high schoolers have to be sheltered fromm”sexual content” in the form of a comic book?

I have no problem with my teenagers reading this book.

I have no problem with children learning about different religions at any age. What a weird fear.  [/quote]

NP. Yes, I want my high schooler to be sheltered from sexual content.  That's a parenting decision. You can make a different parenting decision. We can both have what we want by not placing highly sexual content in schools.  [/quote]

Do I also get to take things out of schools I find objectionable? I find the pledge of allegiance objectionable on several levels. Can I have it removed so that not just my but all kids are not exposed to it? Do you agree that’s my right as a parent?[/quote]

The Pledge of Allegiance? Why is that objectionable to you?[/quote]

Because it’s indoctrination. On a superficial level I don’t believe kids should feel pressure to mention god in schools. And I think mindless chants like this are at best silly and at worst too like the indoctrination that took place in authoritarian regimes of the 20th century, both fascist and communist.

Also do you not know any Jehovah’s Witnesses? If your school had a number of families of that faith you ok with them petitioning to get rid of the pledge?[/quote]

DP.  So you consider the Pledge of Allegiance “mindless indoctrination,” but you’re a-ok with books that depict graphic sex acts in our public school libraries.  And you wonder why no one takes you seriously.   :roll:  :roll: [/quote]

No one is making kids read those books and  they are certainly not reading them aloud in the classroom on a daily basis. 
Are you that bad at arguing your point? Apparently so. [/quote]

We have so many kids in this country who are unsupervised and accessing all kinds of violent and sexually explicit materials in their homes. Public schools do not need to be making such materials easily available.  [/quote]

Guess what, they're not! The book in question is nowhere near what you seem to be describing.

I bet you want to ban Toni Morrison, too, don't you.

How about we ban the Bible? Talk about explicit! Rapes, murder, teenagers being impregnated by god, descriptions of genitals. I'd like to ban that in every school. Agree?[/quote]

I think you know kids aren't checking out the Bible at school.[/quote]

I thought the point was to ban things conservatives fine objectionable like violent and sexual material, not whether it’s popular or not. There’s no consistency. [/quote]

First of all, i work in public schools evaluatiing kids. If there is a Bible in the middle or high school media centers in my school system, you'd have to look hard to find them. I would have no objection to Toni Morrison's books in a senior high school. I stand by my previous comments that I do not think any sexually explicit materials should be in an elementary or middle school.[/quote]

Where has Gender Queer been in an elementary school library? Or even middle schools?[/quote]

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