Re: [LM_NET] VA High School Library Under Fire about books-CORRECTION

[Josephine Dervan <dervan@OPTONLINE.NET>]

This is a correction from the message below. The charges were made NOT against a HS 
in Springfield VA but rather against several high school libraries in Fairfax 
County, VA. 


> from today's Washington Post:
> 
> 
> Banned Books, Chapter 2
> Conservative Group Urges Libraries to Accept Collection
> By Michael Alison Chandler
> Washington Post Staff Writer 
> Friday, October 3, 2008; Page B01 
> During a week that librarians nationwide are highlighting banned 
> books, conservative Christian students and parents showcased 
> their own collection outside a (Springfield, VA) high school 
> yesterday -- a collection they say was banned by the librarians 
> themselves. 
> More than 40 students, many wearing black T-shirts stamped with 
> the words "Closing Books Shuts Out Ideas," said they tried to 
> donate more than 100 books about 
> homo-sexuality to more than a dozen high school libraries in the 
> past year. The initiative, organized by Colorado Springs-based 
> Focus on the Family, was intended to add a conservative 
> Christian perspective to shelves that the students said are 
> stocked with "pro-gay" books. 
> Most of the books were turned down after school librarians said 
> they did not meet school system standards. Titles include 
> "Marriage on Trial: The Case Against Same-Sex Marriage and 
> Parenting" and "Someone I Love Is Gay," which argues that 
> homo-sexuality is not "a hopeless condition." 
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
> dyn/content/article/2008/10/02/AR2008100203644.html 
> 
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> 

Josephine Dervan, MLS -Online Instructor 
School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Stout 
dervan at optonline.net 
dervanj@uwstout.edu 

He who has a library and a garden, wants for nothing- Cicero 

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