Saturday, September 27, 2008
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Just the rambling adventures of me
Throughout most of college, my seat in my assorted boats was usually three seat. And it was generally a port seat, even though odd numbered seats are usually starboard. So my perma-three seat became part of my college crew team experience, both for its reliability and for its unusual configuration. Thus, the name.
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Where the Sidewalk Ends? Where's Waldo? These banners have way too much time on their hands.
I'm going to read Why the Caged Bird Sings. I started it during my student teaching on one of my breaks, but then a class started reading it so the class set was gone from the lounge. The first 20 pages were enthralling.
"Banned" includes parents' requests to remove a book from required class reading. I don't know that that's a ban.
Hamlet was banned in Ethiopia? WTF?
Requesting that a book be removed from a class curriculum isn't banning. It's "challenging" the book. But the ALA tracks challenged books also, since generally the requests to have books pulled from classrooms are made on the same grounds as requests to have them pulled from library shelves (ie schoolchildren will be irreparably corrupted by reading such filth as Hamlet or Where the Sidewalk Ends).
I started reading Moby Dick two weeks ago. I think that makes me a trend setter.
the thing that really gets me is how little the banners must read. i can think of literally scores of books that are "worse" than most of the banned books.
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