Did you ever notice that it's almost always the parents that get themselves in an uproar over the books that the schools find appropriate for our children to read?
Commack High School in New York has added The Perks of Being a Wallflower to their summer reading list for their incoming sophomores. The parents are having fits about it, calling it pornographic. I haven't read the book myself yet, but I looked up the review on Amazon. The book addresses many issues that teens face such as first relationships, sexuality, drug experimentation and suicide.
I'll be forever grateful that nobody tried to limit what I could read when I was growing up. My parents never balked or got upset about what I chose to read. (Or what the school's chose either for that matter). I grew up believing that reading was good, a pastime to be encouraged. And I still do.
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Monday, July 9, 2007
Parents call 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower' Pornographic
Did you ever notice that it's almost always the parents that get themselves in an uproar over the books that the schools find appropriate for our children to read?
Commack High School in New York has added The Perks of Being a Wallflower to their summer reading list for their incoming sophomores. The parents are having fits about it, calling it pornographic. I haven't read the book myself yet, but I looked up the review on Amazon. The book addresses many issues that teens face such as first relationships, sexuality, drug experimentation and suicide.
I'll be forever grateful that nobody tried to limit what I could read when I was growing up. My parents never balked or got upset about what I chose to read. (Or what the school's chose either for that matter). I grew up believing that reading was good, a pastime to be encouraged. And I still do.
Commack High School in New York has added The Perks of Being a Wallflower to their summer reading list for their incoming sophomores. The parents are having fits about it, calling it pornographic. I haven't read the book myself yet, but I looked up the review on Amazon. The book addresses many issues that teens face such as first relationships, sexuality, drug experimentation and suicide.
I'll be forever grateful that nobody tried to limit what I could read when I was growing up. My parents never balked or got upset about what I chose to read. (Or what the school's chose either for that matter). I grew up believing that reading was good, a pastime to be encouraged. And I still do.
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