Parents' Best Intentions Still Smack of Censorship
The Record, Bergen County, NJ › March 25, 2005
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"The Lords of Discipline" joins a list of books that some parents and clergy all over the country want exiled from school bookshelves. Among the latest complaints is one from a Fair Lawn couple who think its rough language is unsuitable for their 14-year-old son.
Some grievances about school reading assignments are weird. Plato's "Republic" once was attacked for being un-Christian, which it certainly is since Plato was born five centuries before Jesus.See the full content of this document
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Parents' Best Intentions Still Smack of Censorship
Some are not strange at all. Some parents have objected to "Macbeth" because of its extreme violence. Violent it is but certainly no more so than...
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