Comments on: Censors Ban Children’s Creativity http://wordofmorgan.com/censors-ban-children-creativity/ The Social Observations and Commentary of a Dark Fantasy Writer. Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:04:51 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Harold http://wordofmorgan.com/censors-ban-children-creativity/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Harold Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:34:53 +0000 http://wordofmorgan.com/?p=75#comment-16 This is horrible. I had a similar experience in middle school. I was sent to the school counselor because my stories contained violence. Could you mention something during parent-teacher conference? I would get an attorney involved. This is horrible. I had a similar experience in middle school. I was sent to the school counselor because my stories contained violence. Could you mention something during parent-teacher conference? I would get an attorney involved.

]]> By: carolyn http://wordofmorgan.com/censors-ban-children-creativity/comment-page-1/#comment-14 carolyn Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:07:55 +0000 http://wordofmorgan.com/?p=75#comment-14 What is more disturbing is that schools are censoring the work of (very) young children. My son (9 years) has been told by his teacher and principal that he cannot write about guns, ninjas, the bogeyman, a haunted house, vampires or Frankenstein. His teacher has put his drawings of monsters in the bin due to their being "inappropriate". He has been forbidden to draw pictures of vampires and the teacher asked another boy to watch him on a joint project to make sure that his pictures weren't too scary. They are now complaining that he is not completing his work. I don't think he knows what he is allowed to write about. What is more disturbing is that schools are censoring the work of (very) young children. My son (9 years) has been told by his teacher and principal that he cannot write about guns, ninjas, the bogeyman, a haunted house, vampires or Frankenstein. His teacher has put his drawings of monsters in the bin due to their being “inappropriate”. He has been forbidden to draw pictures of vampires and the teacher asked another boy to watch him on a joint project to make sure that his pictures weren’t too scary. They are now complaining that he is not completing his work. I don’t think he knows what he is allowed to write about.

]]> By: Rob http://wordofmorgan.com/censors-ban-children-creativity/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Rob Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:36:05 +0000 http://wordofmorgan.com/?p=75#comment-12 I think that everyone has a threshold of tolerance, though, and while it's easy to spot works like Harry Potter as something to ban, I think what it boils down to is really just censoring views that go contrary to what you the individual want to believe. I think everyone is guilty of this in one way or another. Censorship can also be a simply exercised, for example, as a library circulation staffer who chooses more liberal books for the shelves over conservatives. That's censorship, isn't it, but does this sort of behind the scenes activity ever make the headlines? And of course, certain topics are just universally censored, without question, right? For instance, would you defend a public school library carrying a false-history book that denied the holocaust ever happened? .-= Rob´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.dscomic.com/?p=1504" rel="nofollow">December Sun #4 – Page 17</a> =-. I think that everyone has a threshold of tolerance, though, and while it’s easy to spot works like Harry Potter as something to ban, I think what it boils down to is really just censoring views that go contrary to what you the individual want to believe. I think everyone is guilty of this in one way or another. Censorship can also be a simply exercised, for example, as a library circulation staffer who chooses more liberal books for the shelves over conservatives. That’s censorship, isn’t it, but does this sort of behind the scenes activity ever make the headlines?

And of course, certain topics are just universally censored, without question, right? For instance, would you defend a public school library carrying a false-history book that denied the holocaust ever happened?
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]]> By: Duncan http://wordofmorgan.com/censors-ban-children-creativity/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Duncan Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:56:11 +0000 http://wordofmorgan.com/?p=75#comment-8 "The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame." - Oscar Wilde Keep up the good fight! By the way, I love the layout of your blog, it's very easy to navigate and pleasing to the eye. “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” – Oscar Wilde

Keep up the good fight!

By the way, I love the layout of your blog, it’s very easy to navigate and pleasing to the eye.

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