Dallas News Reports [reg: [email protected], blakecarver] a book borrowed from a fifth-grade classroom at Pirrung Elementary School two weeks scared a Mesquite (the town not the BBQ flavor) woman, and she wants it removed from the district’s school libraries. The book in question? Alice the Brave, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.
Throughout the book, the title character obsesses over her widowed father’s relationship with her teacher and whether her father is sleeping with the woman.
She said her daughter is easily influenced. “And for children like her, this type of book is dangerous.” She doesn’t consider herself conservative. “I believe in living in the real world and not sheltering kids,” she said.
But reading Alice the Brave opened her eyes to new dangers, she said.
“Now, we realize we have to police everything, even if it came from school.”
Say what?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHA!
Oh, my; now there’s an amusing delusion.
Anybody who says, ‘I don’t believe in censorship, but’, does believe in censorship. You can’t say that you don’t believe in sheltering children while doing exactly that.
From the: “Did I hear that right?” department
“Now, we realize we have to police everything, even if it came from school.”
Really? I thought everything that was taught in school is right and has pased through the filters of the Moral Majority and contains nothing wrong and only good. News flash lady, you are still a parent and should supervise what your children read, watch, etc.
[end rant]
Naylor’s books often targeted
Naylor’s series about Alice are often targeted because they are so honest and true to life.Like Blume’s books 20 years ago, Naylor says to kids/teens “Yes, life is like this. You are not alone” I guess that some people prefer that their children remain alone.