Jeff -- I'm so sorry this has happened to you. Middle schoolers love
irreverent. I'll bet a lot of your students look forward to Mad.
Even if you decide not to defend stocking this particular magazine, it
is completely defensible to have something to draw in those kids who
think that reading is dull or lame or too hard for them.
Just want you to know, I ate up every issue of Mad magazine when I was
a kid, much younger than middle school. I especially loved the
fold-in pictures, which were pretty much always rude. It was perfect!
It was funny. It also was droll and made me think. My sister and I
would roll around in fits of hysteria when we didn't even really get
the jokes.
And I was a shy, academically excelling, polite little girl.
--
Robin Shtulman
Librarian
Greenfield Middle School
195 Federal Street
Greenfield, MA 01301
413-772-1360, ext. 221
robsht1@gpsk12.org
http://www.gmsl.blogspot.com
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