Who is this Dana woman? She's not had a humpour removal, she's got a defective personality?
I've spent some time (and feel so much older) watching all the stuff on the Levar Burton issue, and he's got views, and so have the moms for liberty groups. The majority of material I can read has me supporting both sides - kids should be able to read better, and books are great. Parents don't agree with some of the content. That I also support. I want my grandchildren taught a balanced view- - the good and the bad.
In UK history, where they are looking at WW2, it's goodies vs baddies. The UK followed by the US against Hitler. Trouble is they gloss over the Japanese and Russian elements. They also have removed swastikas from everywhere. Black uniforms, red armbands and black crosses. The Swastika has been erased, despite most of the kids having heard of it. I was in a class where the teaching assistant was Russian - and she was incensed that her grandparents fight against Hitler was totally missing, including the information anout how many Russians died.
Surely schools, colleges and universities should offer properly balanced content and let the readers decide. What seems to happen is not just censoring, but active promotion of certain views. I'd even say that in some parts of all of our countries, some features would be pushed more than others, but somebody has decided young people do not have top make their own minds up, just only read one viewpoint and keep others sidelined.
We still have faith schools in the UK - both Protestant and Catholic and some other religion faith schools too when local need dictates, and it's usually the case that the education across the board is better. We even have people pretending to be religious here to get their kids into these schools.
The book stock is chosen to simply be appropriate, but parents of all kinds of schools are solid in their belief that they should have a hand in selecting approrpiate books and at least questioning ones with less acceptable content.
