Diary of Anne Frank: Definitive Edition banned from school

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Diary of Anne Frank: Definitive Edition banned from school

Postby ElectricKoolaid » Fri Jan 29, 2010 6:06 pm

http://blogs.roanoke.com/rtblogs/backcover/2010/01/29/anne-frank-banished/

Since its publication in 1947, "The Diary of a Young Girl" has been read by tens of millions of people. However, Anne's father, Otto Frank, omitted parts where Anne criticized her mother and other Jews living in the confined quarters as well as some sexually suggestive references.
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This book is usually given to eighth-grade middle school English students to read. Jim Allen, director of instruction for the school system, cited a parent's concern over the sexual nature of a certain passage in the definitive edition, and said school officials immediately chose to pull this version and use an alternative copy.


I think the comment someone left on the article sums my feelings up perfectly:

We wouldn't want 8th graders to know anything about sex, would we? As if they haven't already been on the Internet.
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Re: Diary of Anne Frank: Definitive Edition banned from school

Postby Notorious » Fri Jan 29, 2010 6:24 pm

Oh, yeah. Good. That's a great idea. *FACEDESK* .... *FACEACID* ...... *FACEMARIAH*
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Re: Diary of Anne Frank: Definitive Edition banned from school

Postby Rich » Fri Jan 29, 2010 6:42 pm

Why don't we just ban reading so we can stop wasting time burning books and get on with more important things, like actually doing something constructive?
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Re: Diary of Anne Frank: Definitive Edition banned from school

Postby ElectricKoolaid » Fri Jan 29, 2010 7:50 pm

Rich wrote:Why don't we just ban reading so we can stop wasting time burning books and get on with more important things, like actually doing something constructive?


Seriously. Let's just cut out the middle man already.
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Re: Diary of Anne Frank: Definitive Edition banned from school

Postby iheartgaymes » Fri Jan 29, 2010 11:03 pm

Forget about the sexual content in Anne Franke's diary; it's the witchcraft and devilworship in Harry Potter that we should all be worried about!

-sigh- Why do these people have to give Virginians a bad name?
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