lets do away with kansas city

this fucking website infuriates me. they would like to ban some of the best books i have ever read, such as: Boy's Life, Catcher in the Rye, Black Boy, Fallen Angels, Slaughterhouse Five, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Going After Cacciato, The Things They Carried, and more. I am glad i stumbled across this dudes random blog to bring it to my attention so i can rant about it for a while. Here is the note i wrote to them to tell them how dumb i find their movement. im sure it could be better, but i refuse to muster too much brain power on their behalf.

I applaud your district for choosing diverse material representative of numerous cultural perspectives throughout the course of what looks to be primarily American Literature. Your organization's goal seems to be to take any resonsibility for educating your children away from the school system and place it entirely with the parents or designated caretakers. Should our goal be to educate students to the age of eighteen while developing a hatred for the process of reading and learning, or should we be instilling in them the idea that reading does not have to be a painful and irrelevant process. None of the books on the list I have seen posted at your website "promotes" scandalous or illicit behavior. Do characters sometimes engage in such acts? Certainly. Does this mirror our society at large? Certainly. If a child is to truly be 'educated' by the things that they read at school, shoudln't they be presented with things that encourage them to think?

And as a brief sidenote, Shakespeare pushed the limits of the 'acceptable' beyond what had ever been deemed so in his time. His works remain quite contoversial in many regards. For instance, Romeo and Juliet is read by practically every freshman english class in America. Should we be 'promoting' lustful sex out of wedlock? Should we be 'promoting' suicide as the answer to tough times? Should we be promoting the idea to our high school freshmen that when parents fail to listen only drastic measures will gain attention? Almost by definition 'great' literature deals with the topics that we are reluctant to come face to face with. If these topics and the language that is sometimes used to call our attention to them should be entirely removed from the curriculum, our students stand little chance of enjoying and therefore learning from their time in our schools. If parents do not like the content in some of the books and works in the curriculum, perhaps they should read these books along with their children and engage in their own constructive conversations with their children. Surely a little time spent face to face discussing difficult issues would benefit us all.

What a bunch of fucking moronic moms with nothing better to do than ruin their children's education. fuck them all