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Video games will save the world! Or at least educate. Because who doesn't want to practice their library skills by playing video games set in the library?
Library Arcade
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If reliving your library experiences through video games doesn't do it for you, how about reading about them? I wonder if our system will buy this book?
Not long ago, the public library was a place for the bookish, the eggheaded, and the studious—often seeking refuge from a loud, irrational, crude, outside world. Today, libraries have become free-for-all entertainment complexes filled with rowdy teens, deviants, drugs, and even sex toys. Lockdowns and chaperones are often necessary.
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How far removed are we from a totalitarian state when people can be arrested for promoting literature?
An English teacher has been placed on paid leave — and faces possible criminal charges — after a student’s parents complained to police about a book on a ninth-grade reading list.
Kaleb Tierce, 25, is being investigated for allegedly distributing harmful material to a minor after the student selected Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God off the list and read it. . . .
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posted by Degolar @ 7:02 PM
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What distresses me is that wise reading choices are not being encouraged here. Clearly, this book was not an all-class assignment. Instead of politely handing the book back, telling the teacher that the book was not to her (or her family's) tastes, and asking for another choice... now there's this fiasco. Was the teacher forcing or pressuring her to read it? Who knows... but I can't imagine browbeating a student to read anything in particular (I was just glad when they read the paper!).
I just wish more high schools offered reading choices that included YA literature so that the kids aren't so turned off to reading... but that's offensive too, apparently. Can't win for losing that battle.
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