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Originally Posted by Namekuseijin
How about we ban religion altogether? Can't you see how much froth it brings? You can't submit children to read fiction about religious people perpetrating crimes, but somehow it is ok for children to read how Moses would slay his enemies and their children, how a drunken old man would fock his 2 sluttish daughters etc.
I can see how severed beyond repair is the head of people submitted to such reading. I approve the ban of dementia-inducing books.
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After speaking with a friend who has children this age, I have a slightly different understanding of the situation:
The problem isn't the discussion of Mormons or if the work is critical of them...it is that the work is factually incorrect to a large degree - and incorrect in a prejudicial way.
The problem that occurs for the parent, according to my friend, is that each teacher may teach your child something different about the situation. Now the parent's responsibility has been doubled. If the parent hasn't read SiS (which they should have already before their child!) they need to read that. The parent also needs to find out what the teacher taught the child about the book. The parent needs to find out what the teacher taught the child about the differences between Mormons in the book vs real life at that time period vs today. The parent needs to research this information in order to make sure the teacher was not teaching the child his/hers own personal prejudices. After all of that, the parent may now need to remove the teacher's prejudices from their child and teach them the truth.
According to my friend, instead of doing all of that, they would rather the school system to use a different Sherlock Holmes book (My friend rec'd The Man with the Twisted Lip, too
and allow the parent to delve into those sensitive waters when they are prepared to do so.