Thread: Salon: Books That should be Banned from Schools.
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Old 10-26-2011, 04:12 AM   #65
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Originally Posted by allinhi/ View Post
I only remember one book I really disliked, 1919, John Dos Passos, I believe. Before college teachers rarely choose the books assigned. They pick from an approved list. One of the issues is schools in many areas, due to lawsuits students cannot be ability grouped. I remember my mother demanding the library issue me an adult card in second grade because I had read the allowed 6-8 childrens books in the car on the way home. The library had refused to let me check out Lord of the Rings and Waystation. Fortunately I was OK at sports so I wasn't picked on to much.
That is appalling! I have never understood the sausage-machine approach to child development. Children are as individual as the adults they will become. They can vary enormously in abilities and interests.
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