Re: Please Vote

[Joni Rathbun <jrathbun@OREDNET.ORG>]

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Rubaiyat wrote:

> I have found myself in the last few months refusing to purchase books on
> gay/lesbian relationships.  Some of these books receive excellent =
> reviews
> and I feel there is a need for such books in a collection.  I feel =
> guilty
> about not ordering these books, because of not wanting to open this
> pandora's box.  To me this is the worst kind of censorship, but I =
> haven't
> decided how to resolve this issue.  I feel that is some ways I =
> underserving
> a sigment of my population.
>
> The other reason that I refuse to purchase this type of books, is that I
> know that we do not have any gay and lesbian students in the district --
> tongue in cheek. =20


I've had some of the same internal struggles. But knowing we had
quite a few openly gay/lesibian students gave me the courage to start
ordering a few titles. I beefed up the non fiction titles for research and
have stopped "deselecting" or hesitating because of gay content for
fiction. I've received only positive comments from those who've discovered
any of the fiction books. I'm sure there are some parents out there
somewhere who'd object. I figure I will cross that bridge when and if the
time comes they actually do. I can't let the fear of a possible challenge
be my automatic stop point as there's someone out there to object to
probably half the books we own. If it is a quality book that can stand on
its own otherwise, chances are it COULD survive a challenge. So let
'em come.



J. Rathbun, Librarian
Mojave High School
Clark County School District
Las Vegas, Nevada
Email: jrathbun@orednet.org
http://ccsd.net/schools/mojave/library

Leave it to Beaver was not a documentary.

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