Five people have no business being near education of the young.

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once read, you're irrevocably changed, for you begin to understand your invisibility.

I can't say it enough: Never let your schooling interfere with your education.

I'm usually not too far off.

Let's hope by banning it, these clods will spark kids' curiosity.

If they don't want their kids to read it, tell they them not to. If their kids don't obey them, banning books won't help.

... objects to what is generally considered one of the top 100 works of English language fiction.

Greeeeeaaaat

For years, popular public address announcer and Randolph County Board of Education chair Tommy McDonald has led fans in a brief prayer before football games at Randleman High School.

Friday night, he had to pause for reflection.

Someone — McDonald doesn’t know who — sent him an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) publication that defines the American judicial system’s attitude toward religious observations in public settings, including prayer before school sporting events.

http://courier-tribune.com/sections/news/local/fear-lawsuit-doesn%E2%80%99t-stop-pre-game-prayer.html

Then He made school boards"-Mark Twain.

"ONE solitary parent complained, so we have to ban all the copies..."

for the National Book Award.

I would venture to say it was more accessible to students at that time than it is now.

When people like this hit the news in NC, I always love to look up voter registration.

It makes it even sadder that she is a registered Democrat

Perhaps an old Dixiecrat that somehow missed the 60s mass exodus...

Where do you look up individual voter's political affiliation?

Go to voter lookup, enter Kimiyutta Parsons as the name and Randolph County.

Now all the kids are going to read it, trying to find out why it was banned.

Well played, Board of Education!

Thanks, boneheads.
If you want them to not read, just ignore it.

Censorship is stupid.

would probably want every book in that library banned or burned if it didn't meet her standards of decency. I would imagine she does not have a close relationship with her children to where she could talk to them about varied subjects.

As far as mr mason, fuck him too.

was always on the HS reading list when my girls were in school. I know my youngest read it for sure. I'm not quite sure what passes for education in some of these districts.

For lots of reasons.

Someone got their hands on the ring from The Hobbit.

These kids are at least sixteen years old. They are not "young children."I swear some people saw "Idiocracy" and thought it was describing Uptopia.

Read it summer before last and was completely captivated by it.

but now I'm curious to read it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Man

Not to be missed.

No "literary value" in "The Invisible Man?" Really? I swear if I was an English teacher there, I would order a bulk shipment of it from Amazon and hand them out.