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You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post featuring banned book news and reviews. Photo © Warwa on Flickr “The purpose of our elementary schools is to teach writing, reading and arithmetic, not to encourage boys to wear dresses.” “Jacob’s New Dress” pulled from 1st grade curriculum in North Carolina after teacher complains to […]  You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post featuring banned book news and reviews. Display for the times at San Francisco’s City Lights Bookstore YCRT! News A Texas congressman says “Better to get your news directly from the president. In fact, it might be the only way to get the unvarnished truth.” A San […] You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post featuring banned book reviews and news roundups. 10,000 unwanted books overtake the streets of Melbourne YCRT! News Many Americans these days are engaged in protest. Reading in public, especially the reading of banned or challenged books, can also be an act of protest. Related: Using Banned […] What can those opposed to book banning do? More of what we have been doing: sharing news of challenges and attempts to ban books, showing up at local school board meetings to defend books, teachers, and meaningful education; organizing banned book giveaways in communities that have succumbed to the forces of darkness. If we don’t want to lose the freedoms that define us as Americans, we must be prepared to fight back. […] You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post featuring banned book reviews and news roundups. Banned Books Week: September 25- October 1, 2016 YCRT! Campus Thoughtcrime Report Have the University of Wisconsin campus thought police never read “1984”? ‘Bias Incident Team’: Students’ Three Blind Mice Halloween Costume ‘Makes Fun of a Disability.’ Meanwhile, at […] You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post featuring banned book reviews and news roundups. Amusing Shutterstock find: “Man hand showing CENSORSHIP word phone with blur business man wearing plaid shirt” YCRT! News Roundup This is an interesting exchange: Elementary school librarian to author: It’s not that I don’t think heroin addiction […] You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post featuring banned book reviews and news roundups. YCRT! News Right-wing conservatives get upset about book banning too. But are schools in Portland, Oregon, actually banning textbooks that deny or call into question climate change? Not really. Texas schools were encouraged to teach Mexican-American history. They’re off […] You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post featuring banned book reviews and news roundups. YCRT! News In the last YCRT! I mentioned a Canadian comedian who is being investigated by a Quebec human rights commission over a joke. Well, get a load of this: a German comedian is being prosecuted for […] |
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