The whole thing is ridiculous, I agree! They shouldn't be allowed to remove anything, first of all, and if they do, then they better have read it for god's sake. Argh!
Well put, Becky. I hope lots of folks followed your "committee-driven" link and will take a look at Ravitch's book, if they haven't already.
Is this really what they want the school's children to be learning?
In a word, yes.
It's infuriating, insulting, and absurd, isn't it?
I could go on and on. I just finished reading Kathy Jo's The Law of Unintended Consequences and then followed the links to Spunky's post on Gatto's Fourth Purpose Schooling. I'm pretty hopped up right now. :)
Lynne and Chris -- when we first started considering hs'ing when our eldest was in first grade, I found the Sept. 2003 issue of Harper's, with Gatto's article "Against School: How Public Education Cripples Our Kids, and Why," staring me in the face in the supermarket checkout line. And I'm pretty sure it's an intended consequence, rather than the unintended sort, though.
I considered that magazine an omen lol, and stories like the one out of Antelope Valley just confirm our decision.
Interesting how some of public education's strongest critics, like Ravitch and Gatto, are or used to be part of the system.
You know, everytime they do something like this it just makes me want to run out and either buy or get from the library every book they've banned on the lists. lol. I figure if some anal retentive wanker who can't even be bothered to read the book thinks it's bad for kids then I most likely will think it's great.
They always make things so easy for me because I no longer have to search for books. They just ban them and I get a whole list to go by. *snort*
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