A Virginia school district has banned a book on the legendary sleuther for how it portrays the Mormon faith.
Last week, the Albemarle County School Board removed Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet, from its sixth-grade reading list. Several former middle school students opposed the removal of the Victorian-era text, one calling it “the best book I have read so far,” but the mystery novel was nonetheless booted.
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Some school districts are pulling Tom Sowyer off the shelves due to the N word, forgeting that during the time it was written, that was what they were called. Hitler did the same when he didn't like what a book said. This is Nazisum!
More politically correct crap from college educated people who wish to place their own agenda in the schools. And we wonder how and why kids can't think for themselves or have any clue about literature and its history. So many GREAT books written in the last 250 years have SOME kind of ethnic, racial, or political leaning that we might as well just ban them all. TEACH! And that responsibility (teaching) also includes be able to teach and distinguish good ideas from the bad ones....how can children LEARN what is right and wrong if we never let them see (and evaluate) some examples??
Thats right teaching by limiting the truth, hmmm seems like SOCIALISM.... Maybe the schools can burn books next.
I hate schools, teachers and liberal jerks that hide the truth. Teach all history, it is what made the US what it is.
Wow,
Privatize the school system it's the only way for a child to get a good education.
Remember Fahrenheit 451? Burn all the books.. It didn't work then and it won;t work now. We the people can educate out kids.
This is Nazisum!
lol um, spelling phonetically?
We the people can educate out kids.
August 15, 2011 9:07 PM
I know what you mean but I find that doubtful too. Parents today are not that educated themselves.
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