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Well , first , who pays the taxes for that school ? Second , who pays the teachers checks ? third , who pays the law makers ? Fourth , who pays the prosecutor ? fifth , who pays the school board ? The answer is simple , the parents of the children that attend that school . And if none of the above recipients of tax payers money disagree , they should be fired . We the people are the boss , we pay the checks , if you disagree with who pays your check , your fired [thank you Donald Trump ].

I graduated highschool 2 years ago and i read half the books listed and then some. In my honest opinion reading them is part of the english learning process. No one should be able to limit what teens read. They should be happy that they want to read. What happened to the country that all of a sudden literature must be censored. People that read these books have an understanding that in whatever time the book was written, that is what was going on. Its not fair that kids arent allowed to read some of the best books literature has to offer us because some parents are afraid of having to talk to there kids and explain what rape and incest or anything in that matter may be.

This is just stupid.. i graduated in 03.. kids were havin sex in middleschool when i was a senior, a book isnt going to cause any more problems then whats already there, at least they are reading

Here is my take on all of this: 1. There will always be someone, somewhere who doesn't like something their child is learning in school; 2. I think we have bigger problems in our schools than what books are being read (thank you Jamie4285 for your insight on children in middle school having sex); 3. As a teacher of higher education it never ceases to amaze me that MBA students still cannot write properly.

Perhaps if everyone read more books they would learn to write and speak better, and they would also learn that there are many different aspects to this world of ours. We cannot go through life pretending things do not exist. If we do not like an action someone has taken the time to write about, perhaps we should do something to prevent the action instead of the written word.

wow Tall that would go for the values of the minority that the left tries to push on everyone else.. CAN I SAY I SEE THAT LIBERAL DOUBLE STANDARD

OHHHHHH YOU BET I CAN AND DID

I'm in high school and I LOVE to read. I love it and I read everything, and if this Viki Fyke gets her way, all we'll be able to read are stories about The Little Engine That Could and The Happiest Little Elf! In my generation, not enough kids enjoy reading or even understand the importance of it! And by her sticking her nose into a place where it doesn't belong makes her look just dumb and very uneducated, and depending who you ask, wrong and mean.

Has she even read any of the books? What does she exactly think about them? What did she think about the books that she had to read in high school? What books does she read now? She keeps talking about how all of the books exploit pornography and violence and bad words. Well I got news for her!!!! Because every single book mentions it in some way. And in the books all it says is "sh**" and "da**" and "crap" and stuff like that! It's not EVEN CLOSE to the worse words that a ton of the people alive today say. And a lot of the words were invented in her time and before her time! Kids say worse things, think worse things, and DO worse things!!!!!!!!!

I don't think that she has any idea of what she's talking about! If the school boards ban all of the books that she wants banned then we won't have any books left in the school libraries! And, if the kids really want to read them then they'll go and read them, they'll buy them in a book store or find them some other place. If the FEDs agree with her then I won't be able to read in school anymore because I don't read books about The Happiest Little Elf and Snow White (which buy t

I totally agree with you, lilchatterbox44. It is most definitely the parents responsibility to raise their offspring properly. Instead of parents taking on that responsibility, they want to blame their childs incorrigible behavior on teachers, surrounding, others and as we can see, something as ignorant as book selection. Things really need to get back to how they used to be when children were reared by their parents instead or MTV, VH1 and BET.

Such wisdom lilchatterbox from someone so young. They can blame the books, rap music, t.v., and the internet, but let's put the blame where it belongs. Morality starts at a very early age and is the responsibility of the parents to instill it into a child. So many parents put this responsibility into the hand of their child care (babysitter, daycare, pre-school, school system...etc) so they don't have to take the blame.

while she's at it, why don't you throw out every magic book because that could corrupt the mind and you can throw out the catcher and the rye. that book is violent and wrong.

While we're at it, you might as well throw out the Shakespeares and the Sylvia Platts. They have sexual matters that kids should not even be thinking about (incest, adultery and lust) plus suicidal.

The virgin diaries need to be tossed and let's not forget R.L. Tolkein who spoke dark languages to make demons arise from the dead.

sorry reality isn't filled with butterflies and rainbows but the books she's asking to be tossed addressed reality and you can't shield your child from that.

At least let them find out about it in a controlled environment with a great writer who can give it to them in the purest most beautiful form instead of pushing them out in the world and letting them see the ugliest side of it.

Sail so you think that the good of the few out weigh the good of the many? These kids will hopefully be going on to college would you want them to go to these institutions behind the other kids? Learning is a process we go through our whole lives and it's time for these kids to read these works.