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Originally Posted by OBCT
I don't mean to take this beyond it's intended scope, but you have to think that even the most liberal adults (in this sense) would find certain forms of ... "literature" ... wholly inappropriate for 6th graders. A line must be drawn somewhere.
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The line is drawn, most of the time, by a trained librarian. If she deems something inappropriate and doesn't put it on the shelves, none of us ever hear about it and tend to trust the decision. It's not banning books, it is common sense.
It becomes book banning when some nimrod like this Texas politician gets involved in the process and starts barking about he Filthy Commie she found.
Anyway, if I was a parent in Texas, I'd be a hell of a lot more worried about my kid's future stupidity than I would be about the Red Menace.
Even if I agreed with the foolish notion that the kid's book has to be banned simply because a Communist wrote it, I'd be really worried about the fact that someone capable of making such a foolish gaffe is deciding how my child will be educated.