Student runs "Illegal Library" from School Locker

[Doktor Howl]

There's a lot of sex in the Canterbury Tales. A lot of hot steamy if not somewhat graphic medieval sex.


...But still. I had to read it in 12th grade, in my shitty Florida public high school.

They cut out the miller's tale at my high school.  With scissors.



That English teacher...Not the happiest person I've ever met.

Dok,
Went to high school near Wheaton, Illinois.

[Freeky]

There's a lot of sex in the Canterbury Tales. A lot of hot steamy if not somewhat graphic medieval sex.


...But still. I had to read it in 12th grade, in my shitty Florida public high school.

Me too, in shitty public Tucson schools.

Fun fact:  The reason Arizona isn't lower on the overall scale of education quality is because our colleges are pretty top-rate.  THANKS, UofA and AU and NAU!

[Suu]

I'm convinced that Florida schools aren't actually bad, it's just that the state is so teeming with stupid it doesn't matter. However, we didn't ban fucking books.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

The ACLU put together a PDF about banned books here http://www.aclutx.org/reports/bannedbooks/bb2k8.pdf

[Triple Zero]

I am both impressed with the kid's reading habits, and horrormirthed at what the school banned.

And you know what?  There's worse reasons to be busted than to be distributing BANNED BOOKS.

I especially like the part, as Cram already pointed out, if I understand the OP correctly, the kid are actually reading more books because they're not allowed to read them Reverse psychology FTW!

[Adios]

It's probably just me, but something about this one makes me suspicious.

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

It's probably just me, but something about this one makes me suspicious.

Eh, I don't know.  I intentionally did my Junior term paper on Mark Twain because "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn" were both banned in my school district.  Got a free 10 day vacation to re-write it on a more appropriate subject. 

I know when the bookstore in Chapel Hill on campus ran a sale on "Banned Books in NC" they sold more books in that week than any other that year.  Kids will read what you tell them they can't.

[Adios]

There is something inherently disturbing about any society that would ban anything by Mark Twain.

[Doktor Howl]

When is anything by Mark Twain inappropriate?

[Doktor Howl]

There is something inherently disturbing about any society that would ban anything by Mark Twain.

We can't tell the little darlings how things used to actually BE, right?  Because that might give them ideas, and ideas only confuse people.

[Adios]

There is something inherently disturbing about any society that would ban anything by Mark Twain.

We can't tell the little darlings how things used to actually BE, right?  Because that might give them ideas, and ideas only confuse people.

Exactly, nothing allowed that may in any way contradict revisionist history.

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

Which was my argument when I went before the school board over my suspension. 

It is either our history or it isn't.  Are you going to sit there and re-write history to make it sound nice?  If that is the case, you may as well ban the bible because it is full of terrible things in history.

[Suu]

Apparently Mark Twain's books promote racism...Or something. 

[Doktor Howl]

Which was my argument when I went before the school board over my suspension. 

It is either our history or it isn't.  Are you going to sit there and re-write history to make it sound nice?  If that is the case, you may as well ban the bible because it is full of terrible things in history.

If you pretend that it never happened, and silence any reminders that it did (citing the badwrong language as your excuse), you can train other people into believing it never happened...Thus ensuring that the really damaging parts of racism stay, while the cosmetic, visible parts of it go away.

Sure, you ensure that racism will return like the tide, but isn't that a small price to pay to bury our collective feelings of guilt?

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

Which was my argument when I went before the school board over my suspension.  

It is either our history or it isn't.  Are you going to sit there and re-write history to make it sound nice?  If that is the case, you may as well ban the bible because it is full of terrible things in history.

If you pretend that it never happened, and silence any reminders that it did (citing the badwrong language as your excuse), you can train other people into believing it never happened...Thus ensuring that the really damaging parts of racism stay, while the cosmetic, visible parts of it go away.

Sure, you ensure that racism will return like the tide, but isn't that a small price to pay to bury our collective feelings of guilt?

You know my feelings on that one Dok.  It is insane the things they are trying to teach our kids, even today.  While they admit to slavery and racism (since it was oh so long ago) the new target is the Holocaust.  It was more propaganda than actual truth.  I guess all those dead jews were just movie extras from Schindler's List.