Posted on Jul 6, 2023
Florida schools remove books by John Milton and restrict Shakespeare
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Over 150 books have been removed from a large, Orlando-area Florida school district, including classics like The Scarlet Letter, Paradise Lost, and The Invisible Man, as school officials review materials for sexual content under the state’s restrictive book ban laws.
According to a teacher keeping track of books that have been temporarily pulled for review by the Orange County government, titles by Shakespeare have been restricted to only 10th through 12 graders, while other popular works like The Fault in Our Stars, Into the Wild, and Catch-22 have been put on the restricted list because of sexual material.
One teacher told The Orlando Sentinel she was “gobsmacked” when she saw Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream was among the restricted works.
She said she chooses works to study in class “to engage my students, to offer them literature that makes them think,” and that an accurate version of “the adolescent experience” in literature may contain some sexual themes, but still be valid for the classroom.
“It’s just so frustrating and disheartening,” she said.
According to a teacher keeping track of books that have been temporarily pulled for review by the Orange County government, titles by Shakespeare have been restricted to only 10th through 12 graders, while other popular works like The Fault in Our Stars, Into the Wild, and Catch-22 have been put on the restricted list because of sexual material.
One teacher told The Orlando Sentinel she was “gobsmacked” when she saw Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream was among the restricted works.
She said she chooses works to study in class “to engage my students, to offer them literature that makes them think,” and that an accurate version of “the adolescent experience” in literature may contain some sexual themes, but still be valid for the classroom.
“It’s just so frustrating and disheartening,” she said.
Florida schools remove books by John Milton and restrict Shakespeare
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So let me get this straight. The Left requests that books be restricted to age appropriate reading levels and then complains that they are being reviewed ... sounds like the Christian Communists (the other side of the so-called "Christian Taliban" that some call the right).
The Far-left "book burning" group the Democrats love to embrace but deny the existence of, #DisruptTexts, was behind getting California to place things like To Kill A Mockingbird, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Of Mice and Men, and more of the classics that have been taught for years.
https://spectator.org/disrupttexts-cancel-odyssey/
#DisruptTexts aims to replace great texts with woke-approved ones. And it hides that goal in a slick Trojan Horse. The group claims that it does “not believe in censorship and have never supported banning books.” They get away with it by censorship by omission, a sleight of hand that would make the King of Ithaka clap in approval. For instance, they say: why teach your students The Odyssey? After all, it’s just one more book “centered on the white male gaze” and written by a white male author. And everyone knows that “for too long, the traditional ‘canon’ — at all grade levels — has excluded the voices and rich literary legacies of communities of color.” With Homer and company gone, you can chuck those gross white voices from the classics and substitute a rad suggested text, like Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones or Jacqueline Woodson’s Another Brooklyn. Texts like these, which “affirm and center BIPOC voices,” are examples of “liberation,” while teaching texts by white male authors “hurts all students, and especially students of color.” But who said anything about censorship!
But they aren't just sticking to affecting the curriculum anymore and are directly going after classics like Milton and Shakespeare and are encouraging their followers (https://twitter.com/hashtag/DisruptTexts) to use whatever means they can to remove these books from our children.
As Jonathan Zimmerman, a self-described liberal who wrote in The Dallas Morning News: “When conservatives try to ban a book, we liberals get up in arms. But when the threat comes from our own side, we often sit on our hands.”
So, Christian Communists, heal thyself.
The Far-left "book burning" group the Democrats love to embrace but deny the existence of, #DisruptTexts, was behind getting California to place things like To Kill A Mockingbird, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Of Mice and Men, and more of the classics that have been taught for years.
https://spectator.org/disrupttexts-cancel-odyssey/
#DisruptTexts aims to replace great texts with woke-approved ones. And it hides that goal in a slick Trojan Horse. The group claims that it does “not believe in censorship and have never supported banning books.” They get away with it by censorship by omission, a sleight of hand that would make the King of Ithaka clap in approval. For instance, they say: why teach your students The Odyssey? After all, it’s just one more book “centered on the white male gaze” and written by a white male author. And everyone knows that “for too long, the traditional ‘canon’ — at all grade levels — has excluded the voices and rich literary legacies of communities of color.” With Homer and company gone, you can chuck those gross white voices from the classics and substitute a rad suggested text, like Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones or Jacqueline Woodson’s Another Brooklyn. Texts like these, which “affirm and center BIPOC voices,” are examples of “liberation,” while teaching texts by white male authors “hurts all students, and especially students of color.” But who said anything about censorship!
But they aren't just sticking to affecting the curriculum anymore and are directly going after classics like Milton and Shakespeare and are encouraging their followers (https://twitter.com/hashtag/DisruptTexts) to use whatever means they can to remove these books from our children.
As Jonathan Zimmerman, a self-described liberal who wrote in The Dallas Morning News: “When conservatives try to ban a book, we liberals get up in arms. But when the threat comes from our own side, we often sit on our hands.”
So, Christian Communists, heal thyself.
#DisruptTexts Tries to Cancel the Odyssey - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe...
#DisruptTexts believes it is helping students by freeing them from works like The Odyssey. My experience teaching Homer says the opposite.
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'To Kill a Mockingbird,' Other Books Banned in Schools Over Racism Concerns
Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and Mildred D. Taylor's 'Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry" among other books banned.
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SFC John D. MSG (Join to see) Funny how this is happening in a democrat stronghold. According to the story I cite below, only four books have been banned, but it's from May of this year.
https://www.orlandoweekly.com/news/orange-county-school-board-reluctantly-approves-book-ban-policies-with-hands-tied-by-the-state-34179950
https://www.orlandoweekly.com/news/orange-county-school-board-reluctantly-approves-book-ban-policies-with-hands-tied-by-the-state-34179950
Orange County school board reluctantly approves book ban policies, with hands tied by the state
The district’s general counsel confirmed in an Orlando meeting they’ll have to revise their policies, thanks to new law that makes it easier to challenge books in schools
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Review doesn't mean removed. And books have appropriate ages...that's why libraries have children's sections and children's library cards or has that changed as well?
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SFC John D.
I think a good standard is what one of the parents suggested when Biden was criticizing "Book Banning". If you can real-aloud and show the pictures in the book to your granddaughter, then I'll withdraw any objection I have to the book.
Full disclosure, both sides submit books for review. But a Conservative on the Right wants to have a book reviewed for appropriateness because of the sexually explicit content or images. A Progressive on the Left wants to have a book reviewed because it doesn't fit their ideology.
Full disclosure, both sides submit books for review. But a Conservative on the Right wants to have a book reviewed for appropriateness because of the sexually explicit content or images. A Progressive on the Left wants to have a book reviewed because it doesn't fit their ideology.
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Funny I don’t see those on the left that get there boxers in a bunch about so-called book bans objecting to rewriting books. Willie Wanka, James Bond and a bunch other are being rewritten with the purpose of avoiding offending readers
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