Re: GEN: The Man who CENSORED Harry Potter!

[Faith Van Putte <vanputtef@MAIL.OKALOOSA.K12.FL.US>]

We all should also join "Muggles For Harry Potter" at
www.mugglesforharrypotter.org , the web site set up to help fight challenges to
or bannings of the Harry Potter books.

Jeff Hastings wrote:

> Friends:
>
> I really am ashamed sometimes at the demonstrations of public idiocy which
> seem to boil up from the muck of my adoptive home state of Michigan from
> time to time.
>
> Witness: Gary Feenstra, Superintendent of Zeeland Public Schools in western
> Michigan saw fit recently to remove all Harry Potter materials from his
> district's school libraries.  The move was said to be "preemptive" since no
> objections to the materials had been put forth by members of the community--
> this by Mr. Feestra's admission--in fact, the Superintendent stated
> publically that he thought the books were "well-written."
>
> Apparently, then, he didn't want to wait for the opportunity to be
> spineless, so he just went ahead and got it over with.
>
> If you, like me, feel that the series has been a bit of a miracle in terms
> of becoming a publically shared treasure cum pop phenomenon and a body of
> work that is shared by many families as a read-aloud; if you, like me, have
> delighted in seeing your students excitedly discussing the books and
> covetously awaiting the opportunity for more you may wish to contact Mr.
> Feenstra and comment on his decision.
>
> Or- perhaps you're of a different mind and want to applaud him for
> preemptively pandering to people who are scared of fanciful children's
> stories and have difficulty discerning fact from fiction.  I don't want to
> influence your take on things. I do, though, want to facilitate the sharing
> of all perspectives in this matter, so, here are some contacts which are,
> among others, publicly available on the school system's website.
>
> Supt. Gary Feenstra.
> gfeenstra@zeeland.k12.mi.us
>
> Tom Buck, President, Board of Education, Zeeland Schools.
> tbock@zeeland.k12.mi.us
>
> Jeff Hastings
> School Library Media Specialist
>
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