Re: TEACHER censorship

[Viviane Lampach - Librarian <lampach@BXSCIENCE.EDU>]

My answer is recommend The Stranger by Albert Camus. It is my favorite
suggestion of a book to read when anyone asks me for a short book.
Students come in crying the next day begging for another book.
Viviane Lampach lampach@bxscience.edu

On Tue, 13 Feb 1996, Paulette Braucher-Watton wrote:

> Hi
> My pet peeve are the teachers who say you must read a book with 100 pages
> if you are in a certain grade let's say grade 3, 150 pages for grade 4
> and 200 for grade 6 etc. That is how the kids select their books. At my
> previous school the teachers respected my judgement and if I said the
> book was ok it was. At this school, we have many teachers who do not know
> literature and are insecure when it comes to selections. Somehow, they
> view this as a safe and sensible way for their students to get a hard
> book.I keep trying!!!! I win some and I lose some. Paulette
>
> ********************************************************************************
> From: Paulette Braucher-Watton
>       Librarian
>       Montgomery Elementary School
>       North Wales, PA 19454
>       pwatton@mciunix.mciu.k12.pa.us
>