Re: [LM_NET] VENT: Well Happy #$%@ Reading Month to You, Too.

[Lisa Hunt <lisa3moon@YAHOO.COM>]

I find it interesting that Newman is such a cultural icon AND this magazine has 
been in publication for so many years.
   
  How many generations have "eaten up" this humor, been disgusted at "kids these 
days", and argued over the "legitimacy" of this publication?
   
  When you have been around this long, AND so many people from such varied levels 
of society know quite a bit about this magazine then it seems the magazine has a 
right to continue to create a stir.
   
  I applaud educators who have the courage to provide access to materials that make 
us think!  MAD does make us laugh, snort, gasp, and think.  I think that is the 
role of humor in our society.

Robin Shtulman <robsht1@GPSK12.ORG> wrote:
  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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        Lisa Hunt, NBCT 2005
  School Library Media Specialist
  Apple Creek Elementary
  Moore, OK
  lisa3moon@yahoo.com 





       
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