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Banning the Dictionary

I read a story a few weeks back about a school district in California pulling all copies of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary from its libraries because a parent complained the dictionary was being used to look up "age inappropriate" words by students. When I read this story I literally laughed out loud.

Banning the dictionary? Really?

Let me start by saying, I'm all for keeping things age appropriate. When our kids were younger, we were some of those weird parents who didn't let their kids watch PG movies until the age of 9 and PG-13 movies until they actually were thirteen (and even then some got a thumbs-down vote from us). Read more...

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Comment by Joanna on March 19, 2010 at 1:38pm: This is just unbelievable. I agree that this smells like what China would do. Given free and open information, people have to have an independent mind and be able to control and choose to do the right thing. Besides, it is impossible to filter out everything that is deemed as "bad". I agree that young children needs guidance from parents but that doesn't mean filtering it out completely. Sometimes, knowledge, self-control and realization of one-self is what makes people grow up.
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Comment by Holly Bowne on March 17, 2010 at 7:45pm: I know, pretty shocking, eh? I'll have to find you on FB now! :o)

Comment by Joanna Trusdle on March 17, 2010 at 11:22am: OMG!! I thought our country had gotten past this kind of nonsense - let alone unconstitutional. They must think they're living in China. If I were a parent of that school, boy oh boy would I be making a very loud stink! Thank you for sharing. I shared this on Facebook, too.

Banning the Dictionary

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