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On Tue, 3 Oct 1995, Mary N. Stallings wrote:
> To those of you who have had to deal with a challenged book,
> did you leave the book on the shelves while the issue was being
> resolved, or did you pull it until the issue was taken care of...
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Noblesville Schools' challenged materials policy states that the
challenged material(s) shall stay on the shelves until resolution.
However, I have noticed that some of our principals either don't
seem to realize or remember that, or they just take matters in
their own hands & take if off the shelves, or tell the LMS to do
so. Unfortunately, some of the LMSs comply with such a request,
even though in opposition to district policy and certainly to
professional standards!
I cannot emphasize strongly enough that your policy needs to be in
place & well understood and supported by all *before* the challenges
arise! Your state professional organization should continually encourage
all its members have such policies, & should itself have an active committee
on intellectual freedom. Your state department of education probably
(hopefully!) has a dept. of learning resources (or some such). That dept.
should be available to you for much help. We are lucky in Indiana in that
regard. John Shearin (who is on LM_NET, you will have noticed by now)
has helped many of us, and has even served on the Association for
Indiana Media Educators' (our st. prof'l. org.) Intellectual Freedom
Committee, and in years past helped the committee write a model
policy that school districts can use.
Mary Kraft
mkraft.nosc@ash.palni.edu
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