Challenge on Forever update

[Lynn Johnson <johnson_l@popmail.firn.edu>]

Last spring I posted our challenge of Forever by Judy Blume.  This
challenge was made by a parent and in order to be proactive our
principal pulled the book.  Well, other than that we followed our policy
and procedure for a challenge that was established at district level but
never finalized by our board.  I am happy to announce that by majority
vote our committee has opted to keep the book on the shelf for our
middle schoolers today.  We also had a staff challenge of The Color
Purple.  After much discussion it was concluded that we did not want to
remove it but that it was a high level book and that we would require
parental permission.  My concern is without the school board's
endorsement of the challenge policy how do I encourage the adoption of
the policy so we have the backing of our decision???  Someone from
district made the statement last week that parents have the power to
make us remove books, etc and to never underestimate the power of a
parent.
Lynn Johnson
Media Specialist
North Marion Middle School
Citra, FL
johnson_l@popmail.firn.edu

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