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Post by rick49 on Sept 20, 2023 3:19:35 GMT
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Post by voice on Sept 21, 2023 1:44:34 GMT
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Post by Repat Van on Sept 21, 2023 8:29:30 GMT
“Amy Manuel, whose twin sons are in the eighth-grade reading class in Texas, told KFDM-6 she objected to the book's content regarding Anne's attraction toward another girl, saying of the passage in which Anne writes about her fantasies, "that's not okay." Something tells me Amy Manuel is a bit of a homophobe. |
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Post by perrykneeham on Sept 21, 2023 8:47:43 GMT
I wonder how is matters that she was reading from the illustrated version. Even had the illustrations been XXX, she would still have been reading from it.
On a serious note, America is awful, but could it really be the case that teachers can only read to students from a selection of approved books? I doubt that's the case. I certainly hope not.
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Post by mids on Sept 21, 2023 10:06:08 GMT
I've only just remembered/re-noticed that there a load of other boards (sub-boards?) on here. How queer.
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Post by flatandy on Sept 21, 2023 13:53:06 GMT
I wonder how is matters that she was reading from the illustrated version. Even had the illustrations been XXX, she would still have been reading from it. On a serious note, America is awful, but could it really be the case that teachers can only read to students from a selection of approved books? I doubt that's the case. I certainly hope not. There are places where this is becoming a thing, yes. And it is awful. |
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Post by flatandy on Sept 21, 2023 13:54:22 GMT
On a side note, I've learned recently that reading in English schools is also reactionary nonsense in a lot of places, where they have decided that the kids are going to read, in class, with a ruler on the page marking where they are, sliding it down. Like they're back in some 1870s boarding school for the not-too-bright.
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Post by perrykneeham on Sept 21, 2023 14:15:47 GMT
And that's just the teachers.
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Post by perrykneeham on Sept 21, 2023 14:30:28 GMT
I wonder how is matters that she was reading from the illustrated version. Even had the illustrations been XXX, she would still have been reading from it. On a serious note, America is awful, but could it really be the case that teachers can only read to students from a selection of approved books? I doubt that's the case. I certainly hope not. There are places where this is becoming a thing, yes. And it is awful. Bloody hell. I understand that a schools authority might have a list of approved books for the purpose of coursework and that they might allow teachers to introduce a few enrichment sources in, at their discretion and subject to the usual rules of decency. To have an exclusive list is very sinister. |
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Post by voice on Sept 21, 2023 14:33:47 GMT
The biggest irony behind all the manufactured moral outrage that is leading all these books being banned and teachers getting fired for reading to students is the ones driving this moral panic are the likes of Gaetz who was paying for sex with under age prostitutes or Boebert (granny at 36) caught jerking off her bf in a theater full of kids, to name but two. The politicians getting this stuff passed don't follow the strict moralizing they impose on others, they do it to engender hate and fear cos hate and fear keeps getting them elected.
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Post by voice on Sept 21, 2023 14:37:36 GMT
There are places where this is becoming a thing, yes. And it is awful. Bloody hell. I understand that a schools authority might have a list of approved books for the purpose of coursework and that they might allow teachers to introduce a few enrichment sources in, at their discretion and subject to the usual rules of decency. To have an exclusive list is very sinister. Places like Texas, where thus teacher was fired, and Flotida, where the law says you can go to jail for teaching actual history, do indeed have very restrictive rules and lists of approved books and, as seen in this article, you can loose your job if you don't stick to them Yes it is worrisome, but the political right in the US at present is very authoritarian. |
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Post by voice on Sept 25, 2023 4:42:51 GMT
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Post by perrykneeham on Sept 26, 2023 6:03:34 GMT
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Post by mids on Sept 26, 2023 6:16:12 GMT
Kinnell. Depraved.
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Post by perrykneeham on Sept 26, 2023 6:17:31 GMT
How low can you get?
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Post by perrykneeham on Sept 26, 2023 6:18:21 GMT
Dachshund?
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Post by mids on Sept 26, 2023 6:19:17 GMT
BBC, natch. I wonder if Sir David got involved? National treasure? National torturer, more like!
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Post by perrykneeham on Sept 26, 2023 6:21:16 GMT
That is an absolute shocker. Utterly grim. Kids too. Makes you wonder what else they'll find out.
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Post by voice on Sept 26, 2023 16:44:37 GMT
That is grim
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Post by unclejunior on Sept 26, 2023 17:29:19 GMT
Just another Al Beeb presenter ….part xx111
Lessons will be learnt etc
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