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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]On the plus side, the idiots banning everything have just given all the kids a handy reading list of everything their parents don't want them to read.

You know they are going to be reading all this, as soon as they can get their hands on a copy, when they probably would have never read it in the school library. [/quote]

Great.  At least we don't have school administrators and librarians willing to help them access inappropriate material.  I know that disappoints you.[/quote]

No. The fact that you didn't realize this before you started banning books disappoints me.

It's common sense if you are a teacher, administrator or librarian. If a book is assigned to students, they typically don't want to read it. If you tell them it is banned, they immediately want to read it.

If educators were able to indoctrinate students like you like, test scores would be sky high and kids wouldn't have to be forced to read. [/quote]

No one has to ‘tell them it’s banned’ unless there’s an agenda. Just don’t have the books available.[/quote]

So now, in addition to telling everyone what you think is appropriate for libraries, you expect to silence parents from talking to their own children about the dangers of book banning?  Because that has some sort of agenda?   I talked to my kids from when they were 2 years old about how lucky they are to read whatever they wanted.  And that back in the day, people couldn’t read.  And when people did learn to read, they were banned from reading certain things.  It is something we have talked about all their lives.  [/quote]

DP.  And did you hand your two year old books about gay sex (or sex in general) and how to hook up on Grindr?  If not, why?  If so… why?[/quote]

Nope I didn’t hand my kids books about sex, gay or otherwise.  Because I made the choice for my kids on how I want to parent. You are free to do the same.

Here’s what I didn’t do.  Rally to make sure libraries didn’t have books on sex, even when they could be accessed by my 2 year old.  I had fairly high confidence in my parenting (and my child’s literacy 😀) that even if they came across something I wouldnt have chosen, I can handle it and use it as a learning opportunity.

That is the issue here.  You believe your 10 year old shouldn’t be exposed to some material so you don’t want it in the school library.  I believe you should tell your kids what you do and don’t want them doing and why. But not lecture me if I don’t care if my 10 year old sees that material.  And as has been pointed out before, the books you really have issue with are not generally in elementary school libraries. So in effect you want to control what my 16 year old can find in her school library.  Which is all kinds of crazy.

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Again:  no one is stopping you from buying these books yourself or checking them out at the public library.  You could accumulate an extensive home library of sexual topics, specifically curated for your own (poor) kids.  Leave the rest of us out of it.[/quote]

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