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I am in a bit of a tither this week. Some of my dear friends are struggling with our local school system about reading material for middle schoolers. I guess it's a sign that I'm getting old. When I was in school hmm...hmm...teen years ago, we read literature in literature class. We had books that had literary value, classics. Books like To Kill a Mockingbird, Brave New World, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Fountainhead, Jane Eyre, Hamlet, The Scarlet Letter, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and the like. Yes, our school did assign books like The Catcher in the Rye, Of Mice and Men and 1984, but the parents had the right to have their child opt out if they found it objectionable. They had this right without negative repercussions from the school systems. My parents made that decision for me. I was not permitted to read The Catcher in the Rye, Of Mice and Men, 1984 or Lord of the Flies when I was in high school. My parents would rather I not read the coarse language or gratuitous sex that was in these books. They WANTED me innocent of such things. And you know what? It didn't hurt me any that I didn't read them. Did I eventually read them? Yes, when I was an adult and had a clearly established set of values and morals. THESE CHILDREN ARE 11, 12, 13 YEARS OLD!!!!!!!
And they were told that if they had a problem with the content of 1984, then it was because they were immature. Well, duh!!!!! Of course they are immature!!! They are CHILDREN!!!!!!!! They are not supposed to have the maturity of an adult to deal with these things. And for the teacher to say that she is going to count it against them in their final grade if they do not read some of these books (and let's face it, there really isn't that much literary value The Outsiders either) is absolutely ludicrous!!!!!!!
Here is the REAL literary value...the REAL lesson...the REAL truth and the REAL reality...
Be ye therefore followers of God as dear children: and walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour. But FORNICATION, and ALL UNCLEANNESS, or COVETOUSNESS, let it NOT be once named among you, as becometh saints; neither FILTHINESS, nor FOOLISH TALKING, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks. For THIS YE KNOW, that NO WHOREMONGER, nor UNCLEAN PERSON, nor COVETOUS MAN, who is an IDOLATER, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. LET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU WITH VAIN WORDS: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. BE NOT YE THEREFORE PARTAKERS WITH THEM. For ye were sometimes darkness; but NOW ARE YE LIGHT IN THE LORD: WALK AS CHILDREN OF LIGHT: (for the fruit of the Spririt is in ALL GOODNESS AND RIGHTEOUSNESS AND TRUTH;) proving WHAT IS ACCEPTABLE UNTO THE LORD. And HAVE NO FELLOWSHIP WITH THE UNFRUITFUL WORKS OF DARKNESS, BUT RATHER REPROVE THEM. For it a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret...See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, BECAUSE THE DAYS ARE EVIL.
Ephesians 5:1-12, 15, 16 (emphasis mine)
I honor those parents who are standing for truth. I honor those students who went directly to their parents and said, "Mom, this is wrong. This is not the way we believe." I honor those parents who are sticking together and standing up for what is right. It is you who pave the way for my young children who will have much worse to deal with in 6-10 years. You are the ones who are making a way for us to be able to stand when it is our turn. It is your testimony that I will look back on when I have this fight myself and it will be because of your commitment to what is right that I will be able to not back down when my turn comes. Keep up the fight and keep the faith. Those who come behind you are blessed by your example!!!!
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