NORTH CAROLINA

Education is our business.

(Thanks to Greg Anderson)

Comments

[Brian]

First!

[Bucket]

OH SNAP!

[Straw]

*slides on slippery slope, falls and bangs head, calls lawyer to file civil action.*

[Chianca at Large]

I have a first grader at home, and I can say unequivocally that Junie B. Jones is EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVILLLLLL!!

[CoastRaven]

Why should that book be different from any other? What makes it so special that it be the first book in their schools?

[North Carolina]

I do declare, that it's edu-muh-cation, con sarnit.

[TCK]

junie b. jones? what is wrong with people?

[TCK]

also, WTF is a c*ck-maggot

anyone?

[blurkernomore]

TCK, zipper eggs. BTW, your fly's down.

[MOTW]

The book by Maurice Sendak was written in 1996. (hint: this is 2006, so this ban is 10 years after the book was published).

And, c'MON - ban Maurice Sendak?!

[Amanda in Hawaii]

What could be more offensive than saying that "people in Cuba eat, work, and go to school like you do"? I can't imagine anything worse than that..... This whole "marketplace of ideas" concept is way overrated, anyway!!!!! (Yes, I am being sarcastic here, which I should clarify before any 'growing Heat fans' mistakenly take my comments seriously!)

[Kat]

Dave - don't let them see your books.....you might be next.

[Jemmy, librarian-to-be (studying in NC)]

Boo. Hiss. Booooooooooooo.

[southerngirl]

my daughter's read a lot of junie b. jones books - I don't see the problem.

and MOTW, I agree. Maurice Sendak?

[Darla]

As a librarian I can tell you Maurice Sendak is evil because his book "In the Night Kitchen" clearly displays a 3 year old boy's penis 4 or 5 times. He also wrote a book where Pierre gets eaten (deservedly so) by a Lion. Wait a minute, I totally love Maurice Sendak.

Good Heavens are they still banning "The Chocolate War"? Just because of a little, okay, a lot of violence and references to jacking off? If anyone thinks a 13 year old boy does not already know what his Mr. Happy is for then that person is sadly deluded.

[Sarah J]

"And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start."

*snif*

I love that book!

[Annie Where-but-here]

Sarah J - me, too. And last I checked the Bible had quite a few violent episodes in it. "He smote him," etc. NTTAWWT. But people who have glass testaments shouldn't throw stones.

[Jeff Meyerson]

North Carolina, Where Edukashun Comes Ferst

[Cat R.]

Ha ha ha. Once I found this blog, I had to bookmark the site: http://www.urbandictionary.com/
just to be able to decipher some of the acronyms frequently used here.

(There are a lot of them on that site, BTW, but not nearly enough. Is there a Dave'sBlogTranslator anywhere for us newbies?)

Anyway, one surefire way to get me to read or see something is to tell me it's banned, and as a responsible mother of two, I fully intend to pass that rebellion onto my children.

Junie B. Jones. Gotta love the religious right.

I have a psycho relative who forbade his kids to watch or read anything remotely "magical". Disney stuff, Harry Potter, anything presenting magic in a positive light, is verboten in his household. BUT they were all allowed to watch Mel Gibson's crucifixion movie --- THAT was ok.

Well, all I can say is, if we wait long enough, they'll all be "poofed" away on that Rapture day they keep warning us about, and maybe the rest of us will be able to read our subversive books in peace!

[Sarah J]

acronyms for the noobs!

[Cat R.]

Sarah J ~

Thank you! I had a few figured out, but now "OIYDWYMTTY(NY)G" makes perfect sense!

[Sarah J]

don't thank me, thank Judi. She made it and stuck it over there <--- in the section labled "links"

[Cat R.]

Well, will ya look at that! Who knew there was even an "over there <---"? I gotta do me some readin'....

Thank you, Judi!

(getting peripheral vision checked ASAP...)

[Lynn C]

What do you expect. I mean, after all, we do live in the good old United States of the Offended. And BTW, I've lived in North Carolina all my life. Well, except those two years when I lived in New York and actually had a life.

[insomniac]

consarn it!

[Guin]

They're banning the DICTIONARY but not "Captain Underpants"? Someone please give these people a brain transplant.

[Glix]

I think I'm gonna start a protest against protests! Who''s with me?

[Cat R.]

I am, Glix, but you can't tell because I'm (not) protesting.

[Dr. Doug]

Friggin, fraggin . . .
Son of a pitch-me-out-of-a-two-story-building
You knock-kneed, bow-legged, hammered-down, sawed-off nit-wit
---------------------
I think it is important to know how to speak well, and there are times for it as well. But if you need to, then spress yo seff, honnney.

[Nightingale]

*snork* at chianca-- I tend to "accidentally" correct junie's grammar when I'm reading aloud....

[Matt]

While teaching at a Sylvan learning center in SC, I encountered a mother who had no problem with the witch from Disney's Sleeping Beauty calling on the powers of hell, but Hamlet and Macbeth were evil.

[O. the U(manity)]

I wuz the reporter who broke the story about a small town/school in Nodak banning Captain Underpants books ... during coverage of the monthly school board meeting, the subject of a library board recommendation was raised ...

I immediately began thinkin' of ... OMG!!! BOOK BURNING IN DRAKE!!! HOW AM I GONNA ... PRESENT ... THIS PART OF THE STORY ... ?!?!?! (And I also recalled when another small town banned "Ordinary People" from the reading list ... WTFD???)

It wuz certainly an interestin' experience ...

(Lifetime Pass on the Geezer Bus for those who remember the Drake book-burning event ... with privileges of sittin' beside the driver, if y'all recall whut book wuz burned ...)

[Cat R.]

A Geezer Guess .. was it "Catcher in the Rye"?

I forced myself not to Google.

[Cat R.]

***Embarrassed***

Oops - wasn't that one.

[O. the U(manity)]

Wes' ...

EXcellent guess!

Wrong, but a very erudite guess ...

Keep tryin' ... no limit on guesses ...

[Cat R.]

"O. the U" are too kind -- I was a bit off timewise! I Googled it after I made my guess, so I am hereby disqualified. I do remember CITR being on just about every wacko's "bad" list through the ages, though. Maybe that's why I loved it so.

[O. the U(manity)]

Yeah, I dismember it bein' ... "controversial" ... but I wuz raised by a Mom who thot readin' wuz a gift ... and I never had to sneak or hide ... NEthing I wanted to read wuz OK with her (and Pa, of course) ... so the surreptitious "thrill" of readin' disapproved (if not "forbidden") stuff wuzn't really there ... but the enjoyment of a good story wuz ...

and ...

Holden Caulfield taught me some stuff ... including how to shave ... among other things ...

[NC Lady]

First time I've heard of this book ban and I too live in North Carolina. As for others who make fun of NC or think their lives were better elsewhere just remember one thing. I-85 and I-40 go both ways.

[Kat]

My youngest daughter found books to be very helpful. Especially when she was about to get a spanking. She would always stick one down in the back of her jeans. (The Seat of Education)