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fringey
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12:00 AM, 15-DECEMBER-06
The Georgia Board of Education voted on Dec. 14 to uphold a local school board's decision to leave Harry Potter books on library shelves, despite a mother's objections that they promoted witchcraft, the Associated Press reported.
The board members voted without discussion to back the Gwinnett County school board's decision to deny Laura Mallory's request to remove the best-selling books.
Mallory, who has three children in elementary school, has worked for more than a year to ban the books from Gwinnett schools, claiming the popular fiction series is an attempt to indoctrinate children in witchcraft.
Gwinnett school officials have argued that the books are good tools to encourage children to read and to spark creativity and imagination. Banning all books with references to witchcraft would mean classics such as Macbeth and Cinderella would have to go, they said.
J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books have been challenged 115 times since 2000, making them the most challenged texts of the 21st century, according to the American Library Association.
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Another blow struck against ignorance!!! Hurrah!!!!
Patrick
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jamie77
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Just to show that such silliness is not confined to parents in the USA, you might be interested in this story doing the rounds in the media on this side of the Atlantic this week -
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To summarise, a Teaching Assistant is currently seeking damages from a school for being dismissed from her position for refusing to let a child read one of the Harry Potter books in class.
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fringey
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jamie77 wrote: Just to show that such silliness is not confined to parents in the USA, you might be interested in this story doing the rounds in the media on this side of the Atlantic this week -
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To summarise, a Teaching Assistant is currently seeking damages from a school for being dismissed from her position for refusing to let a child read one of the Harry Potter books in class.
Another person who isn't allowed to force their beliefs on other people crying religious discrimination. How shocking!
Patrick
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