Pride, an interesting choice.

[Anne2]

30 minutes ago, LiveWire said:

Do You happen to remember the name of George's Thread?

Ok live wire I really messed this up LOL.

It is not Georges thread, he mentioned this in someone else's thread. And Maccabees is not in the title, but he gave a description of the content of the boo with the Macabees within that. So by golly would you ever listen to what I say again to get facts LOL.

The thread is.....

This year pride month has been rather chill and quiet.

The title of the book is.....

last days pride parade and the return of the Lord.

Now I hope I wrote all that down correctly. :-)

Edited June 15, 2023 by Anne2

[teddyv]

54 minutes ago, Anne2 said:

Why are you bothering. It does not affect you.

And please don't tell me what I know, and what I don't.

I know what I know, and I have seen, what I have seen. It has no place in our children's schools. I am all for all sexual acts to be kept private. I don't pay for my kids to see it, nor hear it.

Yes, ban this stuff in our schools. they don't need to learn HOW TO DO IT.

Would you accept having the Bible banned so children can't read it?

There is plenty of rather salacious content: murder, torture, rape, sex, and rather vibrant sexual imagery.

I would imagine much of what is being removed right now is far less offensive.

One could argue that it is also indoctrinating people.

[Anne2]

Just now, teddyv said:

Would you accept having the Bible banned so children can't read it?

There is plenty of rather salacious content: murder, torture, rape, sex, and rather vibrant sexual imagery.

I would imagine much of what is being removed right now is far less offensive.

One could argue that it is also indoctrinating people.

No, I would not ban it. Well is training up your children, indoctrination? Well yes, it is what we are all called to do. Let's leave that up to the parents. Where it belongs. It is not up to you, or the schools.

[Anne2]

32 minutes ago, Slibhin said:

I stated 1500 books have been banned and some libraries are stripped bare. I even included the example of one book "Are you there G-d?, it's me Margaret", removed because it discussed mensuration.

You responded:

The way some of you try to double talk when your extreme positions are pointed out is breathtaking. You really believe 1500 books are teaching kids how to have sex or all about the LGBT? You really think that empty libraries only had those type of books? Oh please.

Regardless this is getting way off track. I only responded to this thread because I can't stand hatefulness. Calling people slurs and spreading disinformation about them comes from a dark hateful place and is way out of line. I thought I was a family values conservative until I came here. Some of you guys make me feel like a hippie by comparison.

Slibhin, I am sure you are probably a softy in your heart. But it just doesn't appear that way here. And I am sorry how you feel. I limit myself here, as well.

There are great folks here I am sure, but many don't like what I like to talk about as well. That's ok.

[Neighbor]

Hi all, went out to dinner last evening, in an area dominated by non-heterosexual individuals,  men as well as woman  and many in between-ers and whoknowswhats-ers. What I noted most other than  our  male-ish maitre d's clashing eyeshadow and earrings, poor guy must be color blind, was that there were no in your face banners. They  all were just doing business of serving fine food as always. The whole area is dominated by gays and gay run businesses, and not a single rainbow banner.

Now there is a place, one new to me that we wanted to try, but when I pulled into the parking lot there where couples making out heavily while standing in the parking lot. Not an especially appetizing sight for us, so we moved on  to an old favorite and had a fine meal.

Again what was interesting to me was there were no in your face banners, just people doing business mostly serving food and drink, and lots of customers enjoying it. I think smart people find ways to get along instead of being obsessively and deliberately aggressive.

[Neighbor]

9 hours ago, Slibhin said:

Clearly you've not done your research, because the books being banned aren't porn or sexually charged stories aimed at adults. So far over 1500 books have been banned, and some school libraries are stripped bare. Even books like "Are you there G-d, it's me Margaret?" are being removed because it so salaciously discusses female menstruation

Hi I don't think YOU are reading very carefully either Sliblin.

There might be a serious difference between 1500 book bans and 1500 books banned.  There are some interesting details offered  in the following article.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/07/book-bans-pen-america-school-districts

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Genral comments:

 The school I worked for eliminated ALL books several years ago, going totally digital. Side benefit of that was  no more epidemics of  book bags harboring lice and bedbugs on the school hall floors.

I just finished a few weeks experience online, while mentoring, with Liberty School's online school program and am really impressed! It offers way more personal attention  to a student than any school room teacher  has capicity to offer in a classroom setting. I was most surprised.

Seems to me worrying about what books are in a library is a thing  for the past, as the library itself is an outdated concept. With everything online any parent may see and should, what their child has been doing,  including what they are reading, and then handle that situation individually.

[Anne2]

3 hours ago, Neighbor said:

Hi I don't think YOU are reading very carefully either Sliblin.

There might be a serious difference between 1500 book bans and 1500 books banned.  There are some interesting details offered  in the following article.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/07/book-bans-pen-america-school-districts

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Genral comments:

 The school I worked for eliminated ALL books several years ago, going totally digital. Side benefit of that was  no more epidemics of  book bags harboring lice and bedbugs on the school hall floors.

I just finished a few weeks experience online, while mentoring, with Liberty School's online school program and am really impressed! It offers way more personal attention  to a student than any school room teacher  has capicity to offer in a classroom setting. I was most surprised.

Seems to me worrying about what books are in a library is a thing  for the past, as the library itself is an outdated concept. With everything online any parent may see and should, what their child has been doing,  including what they are reading, and then handle that situation individually.

Great information. This is really something I suspect those of us not in the know on this, never considered. This IMO, is good to hear. Parents can see what their kids are reading. Strange things have happened in these last few years, and it has occurred to me, would it not be a strange turn of events if there were an attempt to ban these digital books from all but the students? I do not really think that would be possible to effect or not, but I wonder about that.

 

[NConly]

all one has to do is search Parents at school boards reading books on youtube.

[Neighbor]

14 hours ago, Slibhin said:

I stated 1500 books have been banned and some libraries are stripped bare.

Yes you have stated that. I find that to be in error. The wording is there are reports of 1500 book bannings, not 1500 books banned.  ALSO there is not  uniformity in the USA nor even within States of the USA regarding local school board matters. Most  issues become a local school board matter.  Some States have  operational guidelines.

There are 13,452 regular school district sin the USA, with about 95,000 board members. tending the desires and demands of literally millions of parents plus other interested parties.

Private schools also set up their own standards. Personally I believe the local matters should stay local and be restricted to the students teacher administrators and parents. The others, well they just become outside agitators without a child to protect at the local school of choice by them.

 

 

[Anne2]

24 minutes ago, Slibhin said:

Maybe your friend should have posted the rest, or you read the article yourself. The majority of the books banned are those with non-White protagonists, books dealing with racism, have any LGBT characters whatsoever. Even books about the holocaust and the Diary of Anne Frank are being removed. Don't accuse me of not doing my own reading.

Again this is off track from the main topic, not that I see much need to keep participating. 

Slibhin, I do not trust the public school system to get into these kinds of subjects. Especially, the lower grades. We pay taxes for our kids to be taught academics. Which especially now, at this present time are sorely lacking, as our kids are way behind where they should be.  Here, for me, right now in this conversation, I don't trust them at all. As far as I am concerned they have shown us they have earned that distrust.