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 Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 12:54 am Post subject: Are you in favor of banning books? |
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A mother of four children, tried to get the popular Harry Potter books banned from school libraries in Georgia. Are you in favor in schools banning books such as To Kill a Mocking Bird, Harry Potter and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
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I disagree strongly of banning any book and yet they have banned the Holy Bible. If they can ban it, then yes, they should ban other material of other religions. But in all reality, I would like to have it so no books are banned. What happened to freedom of choice???????
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In the same way as a little dirt won't do your children any harm (that's my excuse) I believe it's far better not to ban but to guide and educate...and then let them go of and do the oposite
Banning a book will probably only serve to make it more popular.
My six year old daughter watched Silence of the Lambs, rewinding the video to watch one part over and over again  ...It was a song and when I asked her years later if she knew what the film was about she had no idea. |
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| Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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| I do not think it is write to ban books. |
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| Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 11:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Oh no I think it is a fantastic IDEA! What a clever way in which to get kids to read more! Truly...come now....whats the first thing you want to do when you know that you cannot.......I can just imagine all of those kids reading Harry or Huck under the blankets with a torch late at night.....BAN THE BOOKS!!! BAN THE BOOKS!!!! BAN THE BOOKS!!!! Long live the internet! Oh wait lets ban that too..... |
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| steeveeg wrote: |
| Oh no I think it is a fantastic IDEA! What a clever way in which to get kids to read more! Truly...come now....whats the first thing you want to do when you know that you cannot.......I can just imagine all of those kids reading Harry or Huck under the blankets with a torch late at night.....BAN THE BOOKS!!! BAN THE BOOKS!!!! BAN THE BOOKS!!!! Long live the internet! Oh wait lets ban that too..... |
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| Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 8:50 am Post subject: BAN THE BOOKS! |
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I agree with Steeveeg! What's a better way to influence children to read than telling them they cannot!!!
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Smitty
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I wonder what kind of imagination those four children will have if there mom continues to ban things she doesn't like.
We would still be in the stone age if our imaginations were banned.
Does anybody watch Caveman?
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| Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 1:28 pm Post subject: |
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Disappointments, heartache, loss and death are all a part of living life and
we cannot shelter our children from these inevitable and eventual occurrances.
As the parent it is our responsibility to guide and shield and protect them until
they are emotionally mature enough to be able to deal with these things.
It sounds as if everyone here is all for allowing our children to read any book on the shelves and to watch any movie that comes on the tube?
Okay, let the 6 year olds thumb through a picture book of Kama Sutra and give the toddlers the movie Jack the Ripper
(lets see if they know what that one's about). Why not the movie The Exorcist!
Shield them from nothing? And then we wonder why the movies and books of today open with topics like a woman being tortured to death.
I'm not for banning but I am for guidance. |
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Smitty
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| Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 2:31 pm Post subject: |
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| YES!!! I am for guidance too. I didn't mean to let children at any age be allowed to read or watch whatever they want. Correct education and maturity is a must. |
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Absolutely not! Who will decide what books are 'suitable' and what books are not? If the Georgia mother doesn't want her children to read Harry Potter, that's her business. She probably is basing her opinion on rumor and misguided information rather than on fact. Has she actually read Harry Potter?? I doubt it. Her time would be better spent in banning guns and drugs. A book never hurt anyone.
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I don't feel it is right to ban books at school, because as parents we need to monitor what we feel our children should or should not be reading.
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My first thought was "No Way", but as I read the comments about how banning can actually be useful, it reminded me of my older son. He was living with his Dad for the last eight years of his life, and his Dad was pretty strict about what he could read, watch, or be apart of. Josh was very clever, however, and took it upon himself to expand his horizons and learn more about theology, history, and art. He secretly did this and would tell me all he learned and give his opinion and theories on it. He had good values, so he stayed clear of the negative influences, and just learned more and more.
I'm not sure Josh would have explored all he did, had his Dad said he could.
So, I can see how banning can actually turn into a positive, but I think I lean more towards being against it. Let them read, read it together, discuss it, and allow them to draw their own conclusions. My other two sons choose to read things that expand the mind, even fantasy, and sci-fi stuff. We talk about the exploitive material and other reading material, and I try not to put restrictions on them, and so far they read pretty cool stuff. Definitely Harry Potter. And I love Huck Finn, I can't believe they banned that. It was a major one when I was in school.
Anyways, that's my opinion.
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| JenniferMarie22 wrote: |
| I do not think it is write to ban books. |
I hope "write" is a play on words... 
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| Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 11:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Riverspirit wrote: |
My first thought was "No Way", but as I read the comments about how banning can actually be useful, it reminded me of my older son. He was living with his Dad for the last eight years of his life, and his Dad was pretty strict about what he could read, watch, or be apart of. Josh was very clever, however, and took it upon himself to expand his horizons and learn more about theology, history, and art. He secretly did this and would tell me all he learned and give his opinion and theories on it. He had good values, so he stayed clear of the negative influences, and just learned more and more.
I'm not sure Josh would have explored all he did, had his Dad said he could.
So, I can see how banning can actually turn into a positive, but I think I lean more towards being against it. Let them read, read it together, discuss it, and allow them to draw their own conclusions. My other two sons choose to read things that expand the mind, even fantasy, and sci-fi stuff. We talk about the exploitive material and other reading material, and I try not to put restrictions on them, and so far they read pretty cool stuff. Definitely Harry Potter. And I love Huck Finn, I can't believe they banned that. It was a major one when I was in school.
Anyways, that's my opinion.
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How about the banning of Tarzan, because he and Jane weren't married? It took a filthy mind to come up with that.
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