Re: [LM_NET] SEC: Book "tolerance"

[Helen Bolte <hfbolte@YAHOO.COM>]

Eileen and everyone
   
  I totally agree that there is 'a time and a place' as well as content or covers 
that are inappropriate.  Some things do not belong in a school.
   
  A concern I have is a psychological one.  Our minds, mental points of view, 
whatever it's called, are not fully developed until we're in our 20s.  While I have 
an open mind about adults reading whatever they want, I am a little concerned that 
a teen male is reading something that teaches him that girls like to be treated 
this way even if the girls are saying they don't like it. There's no way he won't 
be influenced by this philosophy.  
   
  I don't want to seem like an alarmist, but my 'mom' radar kicked in on high when 
I went to Amazon.com and looked at Veitch's titles.  As open-minded as I am, I 
wouldn't want to find out that my daughter is going out with a young man who reads 
this genre.
   
  I do like Melissa's idea of returning the book to the student's opposite parent.  
That is, if you can't return it to both at the same time.  
   
  Helen Bolte
  Columbus, OH
  hfbolte@yahoo.com
   
   
  

Melissa Davis <mbdavis50@SUDDENLINK.NET> wrote:
  At 10:33 AM 12/19/2007, Culkin, Eileen wrote:
> OK, so after my big promotion for Banned Book Week, my principal came to
>me with this problem. A teacher took a book away from a student as it
>had a most inappropriate cover......... afraid of blockage if I explain,
>so, it's by Sarah Veitch, "Training Gounds". I checked it on
>Amazon.... Yikes! But, she (and I) feel that we do not ban books here
>and that the student would need to have a book cover on it, as well as
>not using it as a read aloud to his pals ;-) I am curious to know if
>you have had a similar situation and how your staff/admin. might handle
>it. Thanks in advance, as always, EC


Ever on the lookout for a new voice in fiction I hurried to Amazon to 
look at Ms. Veitch's catalog of work. The description of the first 
title listed introduced me to a whole new genre - adult discipline 
fiction! Imagine the bulletin boards for this one! I also glanced at 
the covers of the rest of her titles, which were actually more 
titillating covers than 
"Training Grounds".

Every one of them would get taken up at my campus for "inappropriate 
content" pictured on the cover no matter what might actually be 
written inside. And I wouldn't have a problem with that at all. There 
is a time and place for everything, but school is just not the place. 
And I never in my life thought I would actually say that!

I would recommend that the book be returned to the student's opposite 
parent: Mom if it's a boy, or Dad if it's a girl.

Melissa 
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Melissa Davis, phone: 281-689-6343
Librarian, Splendora Junior High fax: 281-689-8445
Library Coordinator, Splendora ISD work: 
mbdavis@splendoraisd.org
Splendora, Tx 77372 home: mbdavis50@suddenlink.net
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