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| Subject: | Re: censorship |
| To: | "Linda Cobbe" Linda Cobbe, external communications manager, says that the book remains on the shelf with a cautionary sticker. She says the Armwood parent's concern will go through the procedure of convening a committee of parents, students, and teachers to recommend pulling the book or keeping it on the shelf in the library. |
lee decesare <lee_decesare@yahoo.com> writes:
I just got a call saying the book Just Listen by Sarah Dessen that the parent complained about at the last board meeting has been pulled by someone's authority from the library shelves. Is this rumor true? Who authorized the removal of the book if so? Was it a verbal or written authorization? Did the board members approve this censorship?
Please send a copy of your response as well to the local ACLU contact, Michael Pherger; ACLU is monitoring this situation and needs this information.
Ms. Griffin was the sole board member who asked Ms. Elia to be circumspect in any action responding to this one parent's complaint. Did Ms. Griffin get notification and did she approve removing the book from the library shelves if that is what happened?
May I have a copy of the section of the board notes that catalogues the parent's objections to the book and the board's response to her objection? She spoke just before I did when I got gaveled down by Chair Falierro. ldd
lee drury de cesare
3 comments:
I haven't seen the board meeting so i may be talking out of my hat. Please feel free to correct me. Did anyone from the board of the administration tell the parent that each school convenes a committee at the beginning of the year for reviews of books? It is one of the duties of the school media specialist, and I would hope that the board chair of the superintendent knew this and directed the parent to return to the school and follow the proper channels. If they didn't the question must be asked, do they know their own policies and procedures?
Robert Stewart
Congratulations on the school board attempt. It was a joy to watch.
Do you think that school employee's degrees and colleges of origin are public record? I know several administrators who literally got their master's degree in the mail. It would be marvelous to compile a list...
The question that Robert Stewart raises is the one I ask in today's blog entry. Is both the board and administration unaware of their own censorship policy? That's what it looks like. For the $300,000 Elia gets in tax funds a year, one would think that she would know the policies of the schools. And so would the board.
In answer to the comment about the bogus degrees, I have in the works a request to the governor to pass an administration literacy law like Massachusetts has that imposes the same test that teachers take to get jobs in the school system. Massachusetts is the Number One state for secondary schools in the nation. Florida is the pits. Its administrators don't know how to use basic punctuation and write at the rhetorical level of comic books. They have shoddy degrees from places like Nova or worse. I am using Dr. Wilcox's marginally literate "thesis" at Nova to illustrate the need for the administrator test for literacy for those who are leeches on the taxpayers in Florida, where teachers get pittance pay and illiterate administrators get bloated salaries in inverse ratio to their training. lee
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