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What legitimate education materials for young children (or anyone really) contain pornography or attribute racism purely based on someone's race or color? Again
by za3faran 4y ago
What legitimate education materials for young children (or anyone really) contain pornography or attribute racism purely based on someone's race or color? Again I'm honestly asking.
- woodruffw 4y agoSophie's Choice is a somewhat famous example of the former, and To Kill a Mockingbird is a somewhat famous example of the latter. Alternatively: anything by Philip Roth, for either.
- za3faran 4y agoWhich elementary school children are going to need to read or watch those materials?
- woodruffw 4y agoI read TKAM in elementary school. I also read Maus in elementary school. "Need" is an incorrect characterization. The appropriate characterization is whether those materials should be restricted, which they shouldn't.
- za3faran 4y agoIt doesn't seem that those books would fit the ban rules, which you're assuming.
- woodruffw 4y agoThey don't need to; as the original comment said, the primary goal here is to diminish educators' autonomy. At this state in the comment tree, I don't think there's sufficient reason to believe you're earnestly curious. But on the outside chance that you genuinely are, there are ample historical records of what happens when states begin to ban educational resources; you may or may not find those more convincing than a stranger on the Internet.
- za3faran 4y agoThe original comment never provided evidence to back up the claimed primary goal. It seems everyone is arguing from a slippery slope point of view, which I can understand given that both parties have achieved some goals using that technique. Thought it doesn't mean I don't agree with the stated goals that children should not be exposed to those things.