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From: Benita Strnad <bstrnad>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 09:30:17 -0500
I just have to reply to the member whose mother confiscated "Are You in the House Alone." This title has the honor of being one of the books a parent filed a formal protest about at the school in which I was the school librarian. We followed our policy and convened a panel. In an isolated small conservative community it was exonerated and restored to the school library by the panel.
I was raised in a very conservative household in a very small town in a family of three girls headed by a farmer/minister father. My parents did not restrict my reading, but my mother despised (and still does) bodice ripper romances. She thought and still thinks the covers are outrageous. She did not forbid our reading them, but we could not bring them out into the living room or leave them laying around in the house. She insisted that we keep them in our bedrooms. (my parents were not fans of fantasy novels either, but romance novels really raised their ire.) My father did not like us girls leaving them laying on the seats of the pick-ups, trucks, or tractors or other farm machinery, either. As a result we carried "Literature" with us on the job and then could read our "other books" in privacy.
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 09:30:17 -0500
I just have to reply to the member whose mother confiscated "Are You in the House Alone." This title has the honor of being one of the books a parent filed a formal protest about at the school in which I was the school librarian. We followed our policy and convened a panel. In an isolated small conservative community it was exonerated and restored to the school library by the panel.
I was raised in a very conservative household in a very small town in a family of three girls headed by a farmer/minister father. My parents did not restrict my reading, but my mother despised (and still does) bodice ripper romances. She thought and still thinks the covers are outrageous. She did not forbid our reading them, but we could not bring them out into the living room or leave them laying around in the house. She insisted that we keep them in our bedrooms. (my parents were not fans of fantasy novels either, but romance novels really raised their ire.) My father did not like us girls leaving them laying on the seats of the pick-ups, trucks, or tractors or other farm machinery, either. As a result we carried "Literature" with us on the job and then could read our "other books" in privacy.
-- Benita Strnad Curriculum Materials Librarian McLure Education Library The University of Alabama Love is alot like pork: there's loin steak and there's bologna Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz ZafonReceived on Wed 24 May 2006 09:30:17 AM CDT
