Comments on: Stop the Insanity – Part II https://bethecatblog.com/2011/08/stop-the-insanity-part-ii/ random musings of stories and life Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:55:22 +0000 hourly 1 By: LK Gardner-Griffie https://bethecatblog.com/2011/08/stop-the-insanity-part-ii/#comment-1367 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:55:22 +0000 https://bethecatblog.com/?p=1963#comment-1367 In reply to Nikki.

I agree wholeheartedly with you. (I had to limit my thoughts comments or the post would have gone on FOREVER). I am astounded by the number of comments expressing similar sentiments to the one I quoted. And the problem with the “you can get it elsewhere” philosophy is that maybe the kid who needed to read the book had never heard of it before and only picked it up because it was in front of him/her. They wouldn’t know to go find the book. Some of those books, the ones that were available to me at school, were the ones which had some of the biggest impact on me. And I read voraciously, supported by my parents.

]]> By: Nikki https://bethecatblog.com/2011/08/stop-the-insanity-part-ii/#comment-1366 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:28:12 +0000 https://bethecatblog.com/?p=1963#comment-1366 Censorship of any kind is upsetting, but this is misguided in many ways. I would argue that books read for entertainment often fill an educational gap, teaching us the kinds of life lessons and understanding that aren’t learned in school. Limiting access to these kinds of books is, in my honest opinion, unfairly limiting the education of the students in these schools.

]]> By: LK Gardner-Griffie https://bethecatblog.com/2011/08/stop-the-insanity-part-ii/#comment-1362 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 06:13:39 +0000 https://bethecatblog.com/?p=1963#comment-1362 In reply to Carolina Valdez Miller.

Exactly! If they had chosen not to purchase the books in the first place… No issue. But the books were IN the school, so taking them away IS censorship. Which chaps my hide.

]]> By: Carolina Valdez Miller https://bethecatblog.com/2011/08/stop-the-insanity-part-ii/#comment-1361 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 05:34:20 +0000 https://bethecatblog.com/?p=1963#comment-1361 It’s the removal of the books that had at one been purchased that is so unnerving. It’s one thing to carefully select books when there is limited funding. Perhaps there are other books already on the shelves that cover the same state-mandated subjects. I get that. But they already had the books, and after some politico-moralizing decided to throw the books out (thereby invalidating their funding argument). Hello, Censorship.

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