Alaska school board bans books

[47of74]

More dumb fuckery out of Alaska.

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[Drahthaardogs]

1. The Jerry Prevo Cult strikes again!

Doesn't surprise me.

[CurtEastPoint]

6. Had to Google! Prevo retired and none other than Franklin Graham was there...

Get this shit: During an informal vote led by Graham, church members elected to keep Prevo and his wife, Carol, on the church's payroll and insurance for the rest of their lives.

[secondwind]

2. They must be very bored up there. This gives them something to do.

[lame54]

10. Or they could read

[spanone]

3. We were once a great country that invested heavily in education.

Fahrenheit 451

[dmr]

4. No! No! No! No! NO!

This is absolutely WRONG!

It will backfire on them.

[abqtommy]

5. Ban school boards, not books!

[MyOwnPeace]

7. Before you are too surprised........

remember, these are the people that once elected Sarah Palin as their governor!

[47of74]

8. Yeah that's why I said more dumb fuckery

Previous examples of dumb fuckery up in Alaska included electing Palin and Ted Stevens to public office.

[ProfessorGAC]

9. And She Quit!

They voted for a dimwit who didn't actually want the gig!
Monumentally dumb!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

11. Mat-Su school board pulls five books from English courses, including 'Invisible Man' and 'Catch-22'

Education

Mat-Su school board pulls five books from English courses, including ‘Invisible Man’ and ‘Catch-22’

Author: Zaz Hollander Updated: 19 hours ago Published 1 day ago

PALMER — The Matanuska-Susitna School Board has banned the teaching of five “controversial” books used for high school English courses.

The books, considered literary classics, are: “Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison; “Catch-22” by Joseph Heller; “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien; “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou; and “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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The Mat-Su School Board voted 5-2 at a Wednesday meeting to remove the books from the list of materials for English elective courses. Most members participated remotely. There was no public comment. ... Any teachers using the books are no longer allowed to do so, Mat-Su Borough School District spokeswoman Jillian Morrissey said. It wasn’t clear whether the vote meant library books would be removed.

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Voting in favor were board president Tom Bergey, Jim Hart, Ole Larson, Ryan Ponder and Jeff Taylor. Voting against were Kelsey Trimmer and Sarah Welton. ... Bergey did not return a request for comment Thursday.

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[onethatcares]

12. and here I thought

Alaska was the last frontier of independent living and thought.

To be afraid of words on paper shows just how sad they are.

[Thunderbeast]

13. My wife was a school librarian.

While some kids were coached by parents to steal all of the "Harry Potter" books because of their demonic themes, her favorite celebration of the year was always "Banned Book Week".

http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/banned

[Ferrets are Cool]

14. Funny how the "freedom" thing only works when it is what THEY want.

[TreasonousBastard]

15. Book banning has always been a favorite sport in the US. Here's one of several lists of...

banned books:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_commonly_challenged_books_in_the_United_States


On this list, Judy Blume is the most banned. JUDY FUCKING BLUME? And J. K. Rowling is in there.

Of course, Fahrenheit 451 is on the list-- how can we not ban a book about book banning?

Gawd, I hate censorship. Even if I hate that which is being censored, I hate banning it more.