tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4733360219698179744.post4026909147865288760..comments2023-05-07T11:42:23.109-04:00Comments on Bad Shakespeare: Let's Ban Books. You know. For the kids.Bad Shakespearehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11041488050989009297noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4733360219698179744.post-24911836581347345002013-02-11T07:26:34.896-05:002013-02-11T07:26:34.896-05:00Having evaluated students applying to college on t...Having evaluated students applying to college on their high school college level work, this story makes me so angry. I get riled up about banned books anyway but it makes me even more angry since her son opted (or was made to by mom) to take an AP course that will include more advanced and difficult reading material. That's what AP is about (and IB as well). What did you expect at this level? As you point out, this should have been a teaching moment/discussion in this family about history, literature and how we treat one another. But it wasn't. <br /><br />"For the kids" is a bs argument that allows people to hide behind something that sounds positive when all it really means is that we don't want them to experience things we don't like or don't want to talk about something. Or are uncomfortable with a certain subject. Or maybe we don't want our children to fail since they're never going to fail in the real world. It's easier to ban something than to admit that you have to face difficult subjects, books or people in your life. And by the way, you can have a trophy too. Because you participated.<br /><br />Brain hurts. Must stop being angry. Look there's a kitten...Erinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16484634698733345635noreply@blogger.com