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10-02-2006, 11:59 AM
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| Parent criticizes book 'Fahrenheit 451' Houston Community Newspapers Online - Parent criticizes book 'Fahrenheit 451' A Caney Creek High School dad is fired up because the Conroe Independent School District uses the book "Fahrenheit 451" as classroom reading material. Alton Verm, of Conroe, objects to the language and content in the book. His 15-year-old daughter Diana, a CCHS sophomore, came to him Sept. 21 with her reservations about reading the book because of its language. "The book had a bunch of very bad language in it," Diana Verm said. "It shouldn't be in there because it's offending people. ... If they can't find a book that uses clean words, they shouldn't have a book at all." Alton Verm filed a "Request for Reconsideration of Instructional Materials" Thursday with the district regarding "Fahrenheit 451," written by Ray Bradbury and published in 1953. He wants the district to remove the book from the curriculum. "It's just all kinds of filth," said Alton Verm, adding that he had not read "Fahrenheit 451." "The words don't need to be brought out in class. I want to get the book taken out of the class." He looked through the book and found the following things wrong with the book: discussion of being drunk, smoking cigarettes, violence, "dirty talk," references to the Bible and using God's name in vain. He said the book's material goes against their religions beliefs. The Verms go to Grand Parkway Church in Porter. more on the link Let's get those fires STARTED!
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10-02-2006, 12:33 PM
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| Now you know you are not showing the real story here - especially with your "get the fires goin" statement...... Goodness Wordie - you just thrive on irritation and discontent don't ya?? The book challenge is to the scool board......not the public library........ relax..... ain't no big deal!
__________________ Kicked back in Texas - still payin those Kansas taxes...... The old believe everything, the middle aged suspect everything, the young know everything......... Oscar Wilde |
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10-02-2006, 01:09 PM
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| what next? Scarlet Letter, girl had a child out of wedlock...shouldn't have that in the curriculum. To Kill a Mockingbird, elements of racism, can't have that. coming soon to a pre-school near you: Banning Dr. Seuss books "Hop on Pop" shows disrespect to your father. wow
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10-02-2006, 01:37 PM
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| everyone is lookin for that 15 minutes of fame............ it won't change much -
__________________ Kicked back in Texas - still payin those Kansas taxes...... The old believe everything, the middle aged suspect everything, the young know everything......... Oscar Wilde |
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10-02-2006, 03:20 PM
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| If ya’ll want to gripe about book banning in a school I guess you won’t mind if we have a little Bible reading in school. What’s that? Yeah, I didn’t think so.
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10-02-2006, 03:27 PM
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__________________ The wrong war fought for lies and deception, war without end, predatory lenders, homes taken, current recession, looming "depression," social security gutted, civil rights violated, and so much more... courtesy of the Republican party. President Obama USSC Justice Clinton It's just time to get it done. |
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10-02-2006, 04:39 PM
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| Read parts of genesis in english class......
__________________ There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it. Andrew Jackson |
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10-02-2006, 06:45 PM
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ALA | 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000 Though a strong case could be made that many of those books on the list might not be appropriate in a scholastic library, there's still plenty of classics on the list too. |
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10-02-2006, 08:23 PM
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| Just for fun, who knows about the significance of the title?
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10-02-2006, 09:02 PM
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| 451 degrees is the temperature at which the pages of a book begin to burn.
__________________ The wrong war fought for lies and deception, war without end, predatory lenders, homes taken, current recession, looming "depression," social security gutted, civil rights violated, and so much more... courtesy of the Republican party. President Obama USSC Justice Clinton It's just time to get it done. |
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