Posted on 01/20/2012 6:36:09 PM PST by Morgana
The state of Texas won't pay for it. It's not like college where students buy their text books. I doubt a teacher would buy a copy for each student.
I it's an assigned reading, wouldn't each student have a copy? If so, that would mean the school district would pay for the copies. In Texas, the school districts wouldn't be allowed to spend money to get the materials that aren't on the state approved list.
As I understand the story this was an assigned reading project. I’m guessing the school has a group of books from which the students can select from to accomplish the assignment. That is what the story hints at and this list must be approved by some council, local maybe. Parents can object if they follow procedure. I doubt that all the students were assigned or selected the same book to read, probably first come first served. JMO
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Pinging BOTH homeschool lists because this is one of those things that's SOOOOOOO bad that everyone needs to see it.
If I were to take a Penthouse magazine and open it up in front of a 14 year old, boy or girl, would I not be guilty of sexual abuse of a minor?
My original point was that in Texas, it would have been vetted by the TEA at the state level. Local left leaning school boards in Austin wouldn't be able to push their own texts and assigned readings.
Well, a district attorney in MA some years ago informed a parent that public schools, museums, and libraries were exempt from pornography laws.
I guess it would be a good idea for parents to check out the school’s reading list, among other things, before enrolling their children. You probably can a lot about a school’s culture by checking out their reading lists.
This is tame compared to NYC. Where mandated for 11 year olds include studying different types of condoms and mapping a route to the nearest abortion clinic and its also very graphic and pro-perversion.
That's easy. It won "awards" (notice no one can tell you which awards, or from whom) because it's filth that only degenerate lefties would love for kids. That is a fact.
I offer this example from my own life: When one of my daughters was a junior in high school, she was enrolled in an Honors English class. They were assigned, as part of their course work, a Toni Morrison (a black wench who is the absolute darling of the left) "novel" to read. In the first two pages of the book was a graphic description...and I mean GRAPHIC...of incestual rape. It only went downhill from there.
I wish I was kidding. Saw it with my own eyes.
I was furious. Her mother was furious. We called a meeting with the principal and the teacher.
Keep in mind this is a new high school in a very upscale neighborhood.
We show up, and in the principal's office sit the "teacher" and the head of the school's English department. You probably guessed it: The "teacher" was some dumpy, bespectacled 20-something who I can guarantee you never got asked for a date in her life. All she was missing was sensible shoes, best I could tell. Uber-lib....idiot.
I'll summarize by saying I proceeded to eviscerate this little bitch in front of her bosses (the principal seemed bemused; I called his sorry ass on that, too....but the English Dept. head, a middle aged woman, seemed very uncomfortable). I never once raised my voice....which was very hard.
When it was time to wrap up, I leaned forward in my chair toward this little snot-nosed, sarcastic little bitch....and I said the following:
"Some day, young lady, you may actually get lucky and be asked to get married. Not sure in your case, but it's possible. You're still young. Then, you will probably have children. One day, and I guarantee it will happen, one of your kids will pick up the remote control and "surf" to some TV channel with content you will NOT want them to see. You will find yourself diving for that remote to change the channels IMMEDIATELY."
"When that day happens.........I want you to remember this conversation today."
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More evidence that insane and evil perverts are running the school systems. SOME - a very few - local schools might be generally okay, but even in the 80s I noticed that apparently "innocuous" text books for grade school kids had hints and innuendos of all manner of leftist propaganda, using methods that many parents would not notice. And now their propaganda is far from subtle. Anyone with kids in school needs to see EVERY SINGLE PIECE OF MATERIAL that is being used, every video, every single thing. Everything. And of course many schools do not want parents to know what's being taught. They will lie.
By the way, was the book, “The Color Purple”?
I've never seen a librarian who wasn't a card carrying ultra leftist. Your observation doesn't surprise me.
Yes! Indeed! Everything would need to be reviewed.
Honestly....It takes far more time to “deprogram” and properly “afterschool” children after a day of godless socialist schooling than it does to simply homeschool properly.
Starve the beast: Home-school
I read The Color Purple, but I would never give it to my sons to read, even though two are teens now. I also wouldn’t give them some of my other books, such as Atlas Shrugged, which, believe it or not, was required reading at some of our local high schools a few years ago (perhaps due to its graphic content? Or could it be they wanted the students to discuss Rand’s philosophy? I don’t know the reason). IMHO, some books are meant for adult readers. Some parents disagree and give those books to young teens, but the parents should make the decision.
Get back to me in a couple years or so.
The same reason Obama won the nobel prize. The left uses awards and honors as a propaganda vehicle to validate and break down the ignorant and the weaks resistance. It covers librarians that order the book for the library by allowing them plausible deniability by saying... “ Well it was a winner of the Blah blah blah award and we order those books every year.”
That is how it works. .... any questions?
No....it was “Beloved”. What a piece of trash.
“The Color Purple” was written by Alice Walker.
This isn’t new. I was her age in the 60’s and we read Canterbury Tales. Classic Porn.
Well, there you have it.
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