Sometimes, my home state gives Texas a run for its money. SMDH.
Amateur.
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Amateur.
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It is the ancient custom among my people.
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Try two passes, for doubling the security.
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Nothing wrong with that. I object to censorship, though.
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When I was in school, I liked it when my mom had read the books I was reading, so we could talk about them. She never censored anything, even when it was Marquis de Sade and I was 14. (Sexual sadism might have been a little much for that age, in retrospect.) She and I are very similar, though, and she knew that saying something was ānot approvedā was a guarantee that Iād want it.
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Exactly. Once I picked up my sisterās Once Is Not Enough and she freaked and told my mother. My mom, who was born in the 1920ās, rolled her eyes and said that thereās nothing wrong with reading something that I was sure to hear about soon enough.
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Did you read the bill in question?
I donāt like censorship either, not even when applied to kids. For several reasons, but mostly because it doesnāt work.
My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.
Who knew that Solomon was into scat?
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Nope, not yet. I just mean that engaging with whatever your children are doing in school is a great idea. Itās good parenting. Censorship generally isnāt.
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Itās weird. Definitely not a good law, in my opinion, although Iād hesitate to call it censorship. More of a bad implementation of parental notification.
I do understand why an anti-censorship group would oppose it, and I suspect you will oppose it too.
Hmmm, Iām trying to think if thereās ever been a good implementation of parental notification. All the notifications Iāve ever gotten were either too late to do any good (āyour child is not performing to scale in this arcane measure, good luck teaching him or her in the two weeks remaining in the marking periodā) or just useless FUD (āyet another student in your kidās class was gunned down on the street last weekā).
The kind youāre talking about are not really state mandated in the same way this is, though, other than the normal routine needs of an institution to communicate with you as the parent. Itās a general communication from the school to you. Each district probably does it differently.
I suspect this law will only cause more challenges to books in the classroom and books in the public school libraries. So, while this law might not be censorship, it can enable censorship of the kind weāve already seen in recent history, which Iād suspect tends to go after more books by POC, LGBQT, and women than men.
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