Thread: Missouri public school bans Kurt Vonnegut's 'Slaughterhouse Five'.
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Old 08-03-2011, 04:20 PM   #255
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Originally Posted by EatingPie View Post
The board did provide an explanation for each book
An explanation, but specific citations should be given. The only thing of a "specific" nature I've seen was in the original claim by Scroggins of "every other page", which was easily proven to be false. If you use generalizations, you can easily show things that are not accurate.

Which sounds less biased and more straight forward? "Citing crude language and adult themes" & "The language is just really, really intense," he said "I don't think it has any place in high school" or that "Fuck was used 16 times (pages 31, 77,...), shit 11 times (pages 32, 34, ...), damn 6 times (pages 28, 37,...), and cock 2 times (in a sexual nature, page 107)"

(BTW, the word counts are accurate, and page numbers are referenced from the PDF copy from Rosetta Books)
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