Day 26 - SCROGGINS

Spread it around, people. SCROGGINS: a synonym for "screwed." Also, a fungus.

Article on the books being pulled: http://www.news-leader.com/article/20110726/NEWS04/107260366/Two-books-pulled...

Sarah Ockler's books: http://sarahockler.com/books/

Laurie Halse Anderson: http://madwomanintheforest.com/youngadult-speak/

Kurt Vonnegut: http://www.vonnegut.com/books.asp

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[beckybookreviews]

I just wanna say that I don't agree with your last comment Jackson. The Bible is a religious book and removing it would be kinda racist toward Christians. If someone removed the Qu'ran then there would be an uproar. Think about it...

[JacksonAPearce]

@beckybookreviews You've got a point-- sort of. The Bible is a religious book, but did you know there's an entire group of people who consider Star Trek a religious show? Is their religion less "important" just because it isn't popular? Because there was a time when Christianity wasn't popular either. If we're going to say "religious texts" don't count, we have to be prepared to allow ALL religious texts, from the popular right down to the satanic.

[MalibuChick105]

All I can say is, I'm so glad that I'm homeschooled and my parents let me read whatever I want. I can't stand it when adults try so hard to shelter teens. I'm 14 years old, by my age Juliet had eloped her father's worst enemy, lost her virginity to said man, taken drugs from a priest, and died. Even with all of that, can somebody tell me the last time Romeo and Juliet was removed from a school library? No, they teach it in class. Jackson, thank you for being an adult that understands teens.

[JacksonAPearce]

@MalibuChick105 EXCELLENT point. Love this.

[JacksonAPearce]

@TheatreLvr08 @LaikVictoria49 Teens are also smart enough to make their own choices about what they read. Driving, alcohol, drugs, okay, fine, adults need to step in. But BOOKS? Treated with the same caution and regard as a bottle of liquor? It's sad.

[timmyman1997]

you know i am a catholic but sometimes i just can't see the holy book as anything but fiction, it has such a disgustingly warped sense of right and wrong. I went to a catholic primary school and i have no clue how they taught the bible and gave me a good sense of right and wrong. They were good teachers though.

[beckybookreviews]

@JacksonAPearce I suppose your right there

[CarFox6]

Is it really such a big deal that they removed it from the school library? I mean, yeah, I hate censorship as much as the next person, but school libraries suck. I never went to my school library when I wasn't forced to, and they usually don't have good books anyways. That's what public libraries and book stores are for.

But I just love it when parents try to shelter their teens from drugs, alcohol and sex. This is the 21st century, and we have a little thing called the internet.

[MrCullyS]

your hot!!!



[TheCoryKid]

I am wholly and completely against censorship in all its various forms and degrees. But what annoys the puss right out of me is when people say they're against the sort of thing that school board did and Mr. Scroggins demanded, only to turn around and say that books like Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov should be banned from printing presses and libraries and bookshelves all over the word.

I hate double standards more than censorship.

[FiddleBoy95]

In my school we are forced to read (which no one does) a half hour every night and get a parent to sign off we did...every night, Thankfully they abolished in for 8th graders but a lot of kids failed because they refused to,

[CarFox6]

@alduft That's okay. Apology accepted. : )

[alduft]

@CarFox6 sorry man i had to give a speach about books like this and i had alot of hate comments at the end and it was the same day you repled so it was another poke that didnt think about before i write you know so im sorry i hope you understand :)