There's a series at the Missourian covering a public records project that explores recent book challenges in Missouri schools.
Choice quote from the article about the aftermath of a 2010 challenge in Republic that ultimately resulted in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five and Sarah Ockler's Twenty Boy Summer being relegated to a locked cabinet, only available to parents:
Willis decided not to purchase a new book by Ockler, because the author's name raised a “red flag.”
Which is so sad, as Bittersweet is totally adorbs.
Scroggins is such a moron. He claims he cares about what students are learning about "the nature of individual freedom and liberty" yet he thinks books he disapproves of should be banned. So clearly his idea of what personal freedom and liberty are is "you are free to do anything I approve of." What a tool.
And I find it laughable that their comment about "redeeming message." Seriously? Slaughterhouse-Five doesn't have a redeeming message? Is Missouri a state filled entirely of war mongers?
Posted by: Emily | 19 July 2012 at 11:13 AM