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Originally Posted by queentess
But three books were selected for specific review, and one was specifically allowed to stay in the curriculum! Doesn't this disprove the idea that one single religious person was making the decision? If he was, that book would be gone too.
However, since they were phrasing it in the article as a system-wide look at what is 'age appropriate', they damn well better start going back over every book in the library and applying those same criteria. If this isn't true, then I disagree with the entire premise upon which the decisions were made to pull the books.
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Sorry, I wasn't clear, I meant no other classic, already-existing-in-the-library book was reviewed.
The other two books -- at a glance -- looked relatively recently published, so I thought THOSE were less of a "take it off the shelves, or no?" and more of a "purchase it for the library, or no?"
This is dodging the issue, however. If the "age appropriate" label doesn't have a list of criteria and isn't being systematically applied to every book in the library, then it's a spot-pick on Books That Get My Knickers Twisted, and that's not appropriate. At least not according to the link I provided and my TOTALLY REAL law degree.
