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    Oh my gosh! To Kill A Mockingbird???? One of theeeeee best movies of all time. I still keep watching it on Netflix. Such valuable lessons throughout the entire movie...a classic! This is getting way out of hand.
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    Quote Originally Posted by aloysious View Post
    We can make Dr. Seuss required reading at the 11th grade level instead. Oh wait... that's insensitive too. Maybe Communist Manifesto.
    Maybe Mein Kaumpf would be more acceptable to Mississippi Conservatives.
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    You could go up to Seattle Jarod and tell these liberal future attorney's not to be offended and being made uncomfortable can be a good thing.


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    Andrew “FoFo” Gilich. From left are Community Development Director Jerry Creel, Police Chief John Miller, Fire Chief Joe Boney, Parks and Recreation Director Sherry Bell, Director of Administration Kenneth McKeown, Chief Administrative Officer Mike Leonard and Gilich. Mary Perez meperez@sunherald.com
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jarod View Post
    Mississippi does not have liberal majorities in any elected positions.
    it was a local school district..

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    Quote Originally Posted by noise View Post
    it was a local school district..
    what was the political makeup of that school district?
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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
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    it seems COMPLIANTS were likely an excuse




    A U.S. school district has made a decision to remove "To Kill a Mockingbird" from its junior-high reading list after "complaints" about the book's language. A member of the school board said that the decision to drop the book from the curriculum came from the district's administrators and not the board.
    the head admin guy is from florida


    he slashed taxes and budget


    they are all white


    its always been cons trying to ban these books folks

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jarod View Post
    what was the political makeup of that school district?
    how should I know and why does it matter?
    Not everything(most not) at that local level is driven by ideology. Take the OP at face value.

    People are overly sensitized,and throw out quality literature because of words. That is the same thing PC does

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    Quote Originally Posted by noise View Post
    A Mississippi school district in Biloxi has just pulled Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” from its middle school curriculum because .”“it makes people uncomfortable

    This is hardly the first case of increasing sensitivity at schools. For instance, last year a district in Virginia removed classroom copies of “Mockingbird” as well as Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” when a parent complained.

    Indeed, both “Huck Finn” and “Mockingbird” are among the most frequently challenged books in school curricula over the last decade or so. This is largely because both books use racial slurs.

    The argument of those in favor of banning such titles is that to allow them validates these ugly words. But that’s both a misunderstanding of the books, and of how literature works.

    es, both books do use hateful language, but in the service of a humane message. They have enough depth that their meaning can’t be summed up in a pat sentence or two, but they certainly aren’t racist works, and expose the hypocrisy behind bigotry.

    They’re also powerful works, and entertaining enough that they’ve encouraged a lifelong love of reading in countless students.

    Literature, at its best, can take you outside yourself. It allows you to experience things through the eyes of a person of a different age, a different gender, a different culture.

    The people who run our educational system regularly talk about the value of diversity. Well this is diversity in its purest form. Every book lets you enter into a different world, and learn to see things from a different angle.

    True, encountering how other people think can be a shock to the system, but it’s a helpful one. And if it may temporarily make some students feel uncomfortable, in the long term it empowers them.

    First, it gives them useful historical information—this is how people spoke and acted in the past. But it leads to more than that. It leads to questions about why things were that way, how they’ve changed, and if they might change again before too long.

    Meanwhile, banning the books not only takes away some great literature from students, but teaches them the wrong lesson. To fear mere words. They’ll be facing the real world soon enough. If they’re armed with the knowledge they can deal with painful or offensive concepts, they’ll be that much stronger.

    By the way, the students don’t even need to agree with the books they read. In essays, or classroom discussion, they can explain how Harper Lee or Mark Twain got it wrong, or missed something. Reading is not a passive activity—it’s all part of a give-and-take the author, the reader and others engage in.

    So books like “Mockingbird” and “Huck Finn,” if taught with sensitivity, open up dialogue about topics that mean something to students. And will continue meaning something to them as adults. In addition, give the students a little credit, they’re smart enough to understand tough words in the proper context, not to mention tough new ideas.

    In any case, it certainly can’t be worse than what they’re already seeing every day in social media.
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    Isn’t local control great?

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    Quote Originally Posted by domer76 View Post
    Isn’t local control great?
    In a way yes. Confine idiots to small areas.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Celticguy View Post
    In a way yes. Confine idiots to small areas.
    At the expense of the non-idiots who happen to live in the same area.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jarod View Post
    I cant think of any book that ever made me uncomfortable. I love to read.
    Then shut the fuck up.

    Unless you're trying to tell me that you think you're stronger than the rest of the race hustlers. Is that true?
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