yakalskovich: (Books)
Maru ([personal profile] yakalskovich) wrote2011-09-09 10:33 pm
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Another one for the librarians on my flist...

A secret library in a school locker.

At least the censorship gets them reading.


But Canterbury Tales?? Really?

[identity profile] open-the-blinds.livejournal.com 2011-09-09 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Looking at the list there...that's almost every single book I read in my entire English high school career - the required reading that is! What the hell do those students read, the bible all day?

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/ 2011-09-09 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
you might like her flickr, at least the last pics and the autobiographical comics:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/featherbed/6129088366/in/photostream/

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/ 2011-09-09 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I never know if and who sees it and am just glad that I seem to keep finding stuff you might like.

I wanted to warn you to not read the caption or any comments on the Milo and Otis doodle! I cannot stop crying about another one (http://www.flickr.com/photos/featherbed/4893039398/in/set-72057594103736288) and there seem quite a few that trigger me!

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/ 2011-09-09 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, whatever it is called, I cannot stop it, be it in a group with one person just talkling about it or a film. Like absolutely nothing else. But the other pic I warned you about is worse so avoid.

[identity profile] bigfluffball.livejournal.com 2011-09-09 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe they banned them to make sure all the kids read them?

[identity profile] idylchild.livejournal.com 2011-09-10 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that would be the great state of Texas.

[identity profile] lee-rowan.livejournal.com 2011-09-10 01:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Texas has a gang of right-wing religionists that attack textbooks. This is because Texas is the BIGGEST textbook market. These clowns have seriously damaged science texts with their bullying -- and no one ever hears about it.

I have also read that Georgia public schools don't teach anything earlier than the Civil War -- the excuse being that they don't have time in the School year. I can just imagine how they present the Civil War.

Ignorance is going to destroy America. Deliberate, inculcated ignorance. It's easier to stampede people who don't know what's going on.

[identity profile] julyflame.livejournal.com 2011-09-10 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh. Can't be the entire state; my sister's reading Catcher in the Rye right now for her sophomore English class and I'm pretty sure we're still in Texas.

[identity profile] julyflame.livejournal.com 2011-09-10 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
It's more likely to be district by district; but as far as I was aware, there were no banned books at the school libraries in the school district I went to school in, and I was a student volunteer since third grade and spent most of high school doing assistant librarian type stuff, including helping with ordering the books.
ceitfianna: (prof kirke please)

[personal profile] ceitfianna 2011-09-10 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
There's a reason one of librarians big holidays is Banned Books Week, its so effective, because challenges and banning can be really stupid.

[identity profile] bigfluffball.livejournal.com 2011-09-10 09:14 am (UTC)(link)
My brother did Catcher in the Rye for his GCSE text, without any great enthusiasm. So my parents read it so they could help him, declared that it was a load of rubbish, and got him one of those quick notes versions.

I don't think he did massively well in the exam...

[identity profile] julyflame.livejournal.com 2011-09-10 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm a bit confused that both Paradise Lost and the Divine Comedy were on that list, if it was a Catholic school that did it.

[identity profile] julyflame.livejournal.com 2011-09-10 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Aye. The Divine Comedy and Paradise Lost were both super-influential when they were first published so it's a bit bizarre for them to be out entirely.

[identity profile] brickling.livejournal.com 2011-09-10 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Gosh! Makes me so glad to live in a country and time where I cannot even imagine banned books. Okay, you will probably not find 'Mein Kampf' in a school library but we are talking about literature here anyway...