Ban This Column. Please!
Trying to remove “Prep” and “Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test” from Emmaus High School’s summer reading list is a sure-fire way to improve their readership.
If I ever write a book, my first promotional act will be to ask some group to ban it. Publicly. Preferably at a well-attended school board meeting. It would be icing on the cake if it also chose to burn copies in the town square – I’d give it a discount price on the hard cover. Few things get people more excited about a book than someone trying to stop them from reading it. “Satanic Verses” by Salman Rushdie would likely have wound up in the remainder bins of bookstores had not Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa on Rushdie for writing a novel that some claimed was blasphemous to Islam. Yes, Rushdie had to go into hiding under constant threat of death but his book remains stocked, read and discussed, and I bet his royalties are pretty…
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7:00 pm on Friday, November 9, 2012
Gracie, I hope that there is a 'summer reading list' and a summer spelling list and a summer math facts list. If there is not then the school is not doing their job. If you believe that the school should not be dictating what your child reads during the summer vacation, then you have missed the whole point of the summer reading program which is to prepare or introduce the child to the material to… more ›