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Alberta school divisions complying with a provincial order have removed dozens of graphic novels from their shelves, from illustrated versions of literary classics to coming-of-age memoirs and dramatic retellings of mythology, access to information request results show.
Now boxed away in storage in some Edmonton and Calgary-area schools are graphic novel versions of Margaret Atwood’s A Handmaid’s Tale and George Orwell’s 1984 — both dystopian stories about government control.
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“It's a very puritanical way of dealing with young people and of infantilizing them,” Turk said in an interview. “These are real issues in the lives of most 13, 14, 15 year-olds. And it's better they're reading about and getting some sense of it.”
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmon...vels-9.7118495
A whole list at the link, but I'm sure the govenrment has great reasons for not wanting kids to read about
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Age of Bronze: The Story of the Trojan War (assume the condoms are the problem here)
Camus for Beginners (can't have kids reading philosophy)
Cartooning: The Art and the Business (not "the business" you are thinking. Just a book from 1983 about how to draw cartoons)
And many more.
So when is the burning? Remember, you voted for this. Ignorance is never the answer.