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[quote=Anonymous]Reminds me of an incident two years ago at my old high school in Indiana.  A parent complained to the school board about Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon.  A board member that I grew up with called the book 'trash' and that he disagreed with the board's decision to allow the book to continue to be taught.  http://www.educationalconsultingva.com/ .  There aren't as many articles on line about now as there were when this was a hot topic but Scott Veerkamp (the board member I grew up with) later admitted he'd never read the book but he couldn't imagine why a book advocating suicide would ever be used in the school and that there wasn't any value in the book.  I can tell you the Scott Veerkamp I knew growing up coudn't have passed an AP class.  He seems just as willfully ignorant now as he was back then.  I still can't believe I grew up with people like him.  (BTW - I actually know people who appeared on the Jerry Springer show.  Guess that tells you the kind of people I grew up with).[/quote]

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