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Fond du Lac parents want controversial book out of class

Angelou account of rape stirs objections

The Associated Press

FOND DU LAC — Some Fond du Lac parents have asked school officials to remove former U.S. poet laureate Maya Angelou's autobiography from the high school curriculum.

http://www.fdlreporter.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006611240557

Stories like these feel like a punch to the stomach and make Wisconsinites look like a bunch of ignorant rubes.

Yeah, but no more outrageous than any of the other myriad book banning stories though from across the country. Let's hear it for civil liberties and those groups that strive to protect them!!

This from the state that encourages sexual relations with road kill.

If this was at a University I could see your point but in High School?? No matter the content the local parents and communities should set the curriculum, no matter what the content. Remember these kids are minors and until 18 their parents can control the content their kids see.

FLALAX wrote:If this was at a University I could see your point but in High School?? No matter the content the local parents and communities should set the curriculum, no matter what the content. Remember these kids are minors and until 18 their parents can control the content their kids see.

So if one set of parents decides that they don't like a particular book used, they should have the right to veto it for all the others? In this case the admininstration said that the student was given an alternate choice.

There are people that don't believe in the Holocaust, that we landed on the moon, or evolution -should they be allowed to ban textbooks that mention these topics?

The Fon du Lac community decided that this book offered worthwhile life lessons - it was one family that didn't like it -

School Superintendent Gregory Maass said the initial complaint came from one family.
"We had a mother and father and student who questioned the book," he said. "The high school provided the student with an alternative book."
The parents were not satisfied and asked for the book to be removed from the curriculum, Maass said.

My feeling is the school board will vote to keep it in.

Majority rules and if the majority of parents in a community finds the material offensive then so be it.

Usually the school boards are elected groups and they have to answer to the morals and mores of their electorate. Now if a group was being persecuted, i.e. gays, minorities, handicapped folks etc then the views of the minority would be upheld.

only in the Wisconsin...............................

I would like to cite the PTA meeting scene from Field of Dreams.