Here’s another opinion piece from the Salt Lake Tribune, spun off of the efforts of an Arkansas mom to cleanse her children’s school library. The author of this piece is English professor and soon-to-be-published young adult author Jeff Carney.
Supporters of such plans claim they give parents more control of the way their children are raised. Nothing could be further from the truth. What really happens is that gullible (or lazy) parents simply find one more way of ceding their responsibility to someone else.
The List 😉
I would love to see the list of 54 books that she wants removed, and then do my best to make sure that my library owns every damned one of them.
Re:The List
[Addendum (19 Jul 2005:) By this date, the list of books under challenge had expanded to include:
Society, and Law: Richard D. Mohr
Walter Dean Myers
Hundred Years Of Solitude: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Re:The List
Nice. And Nobel Prize winners too. By all means, lets try and sanitize what OTHER people’s children are reading because you know THEY can’t be trusted. They might just let their child read Morrison or Marquez. And you KNOW what that means, right?