Posted: Dec 06, 2017 6:26 pm
DavidMcC wrote:NamelessFaceless wrote:Oh, here's a good one . . .
Parent wants book about book bans banned
MILTON — Santa Rosa County Superintendent of Schools Tim Wyrosdick says he will not ban Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451” from the school curriculum despite a Milton mother’s request that it be re-evaluated.
Sonja McCall-Strehlow filed the formal request Oct. 10, questioning whether the book was appropriate because of its use of profanity and using God’s name in vain. She also had concerns about Bradbury including sex, drugs, suicide, murder and abortion in the book.
“I’m very disappointed in the whole system,” McCall-Strehlow said Thursday. “School is a place where children are supposed to be safe, but the material being read isn’t safe content.”
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McCall-Strehlow said she first heard about the book assignment when her 13-year-old daughter asked her what a “bastard” was.
http://www.srpressgazette.com/news/2017 ... ans-banned
No way should "Fahrenheit 451" be banned. Perhaps there could be a limit on its airing time, or the mother concerned should either explain to her innocent daughter what the word means, or limit the hours at which she watches TV.
You know it's a book right?
EDIT: Either way, I'm not sure that this has anything at all to do with what believers say.
Probably something to do with taking umbrage at 'taking God's name in vain'?
