No Place for Those Ideas in My Kid’s Head!

Jenne writes “Some parents in Blue Spring want The Giver pulled from eighth grade student reading lists. They say “everything presented to the kids should be positive or historical,” and “when it comes to the ideas in that book, they have no place in my kid’s head.” The Giver is a Newbery Award Winner. It is also one of the 25 Most Challenged books, according to the ALA. School board members are rereading the book and will make a decision later this winter.”

January 7, 2005 by Uncategorized 1

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  1. Sheilah says:
    January 10, 2005 at 8:52 pm

    They read but can they understand?
    A book about the power of ideas being banned because parents don’t want ideas in their kids’ heads. It does actually make a perverted kind of sense.

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