The irony meter is off the scale....
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patgund...and the clue meter is pegged on zero.
In a nutshell. Student in a Conroe, Texas, High School gets a reading assignment. She objects to the book, is given another assignment. Father of student decides nobody should read such an offensive book, and asks the school district to ban it.
The book? "Fahrenheit 451".
Also:
Parent criticizes book 'Fahrenheit 451'
"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."
Banning Fahrenheit 451 (Library Planet)
Life imitates art in Conroe book flap
"The fight over Fahrenheit began a couple of weeks ago when Diana Verm and her classmates were assigned to read the book for their English class. But Verm stopped reading because she said she was offended by "the cussing in it and the burning of the Bible." She complained and was given an alternate reading assignment, but her dad hasn't dropped the case: He has asked that the book be dropped from Caney Creek's curriculum. "With God's name in vain being in there, that's the No. 1 reason," Verm's father, Alton, said. "There's no reason for it being read." In his complaint against the book, Alton Verm also pointed out bad language, violence and that the book spends time "downgrading Christians" and "talking about our firemen."
All fired up
This all happened last October. Anyone know what the result was? (Other than someone taking a clue-by-four to the father?)
In a nutshell. Student in a Conroe, Texas, High School gets a reading assignment. She objects to the book, is given another assignment. Father of student decides nobody should read such an offensive book, and asks the school district to ban it.
The book? "Fahrenheit 451".
Also:
Parent criticizes book 'Fahrenheit 451'
"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."
Banning Fahrenheit 451 (Library Planet)
Life imitates art in Conroe book flap
"The fight over Fahrenheit began a couple of weeks ago when Diana Verm and her classmates were assigned to read the book for their English class. But Verm stopped reading because she said she was offended by "the cussing in it and the burning of the Bible." She complained and was given an alternate reading assignment, but her dad hasn't dropped the case: He has asked that the book be dropped from Caney Creek's curriculum. "With God's name in vain being in there, that's the No. 1 reason," Verm's father, Alton, said. "There's no reason for it being read." In his complaint against the book, Alton Verm also pointed out bad language, violence and that the book spends time "downgrading Christians" and "talking about our firemen."
All fired up
This all happened last October. Anyone know what the result was? (Other than someone taking a clue-by-four to the father?)
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Date: 2007-05-19 01:42 am (UTC)::makes note to make Fahrenheit 451 the boys' next banned books week book::
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Date: 2007-05-20 02:16 pm (UTC)http://www.hcnonline.com/site/index.cfm?newsid=17553519&BRD=1574&PAG=461&dept_id=532207&rfi=8
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Date: 2007-05-20 05:24 pm (UTC)