Re: Books Banned in Utah.

Chris Buckley  <alan@sabir.com> wrote:
Education is highly valued in Utah, with its large Mormon

population. Reading and books get a lot of attention.  Note that Utah
is almost all public school education, it ranks 49th in private school
percentage (3% versus 9% nationally), so it's not because of the
Mormon equivalent of parochial schools.

This is true, but it should be pointed out that curriculum in Utah is a
little bit different than what you might expect in the rest of the country.

Your arguments, with these additional fun facts, seem to imply that we
should be trying to emulate Utah.  They get a lot of bang for their
buck!

This is true and it basically shows that the value of education has more
to do with what students put into it than what the institution puts into
it.  This is as true in grade school as in college.

(I personally don't believe we should emulate Utah's rather
silly state ban law. Ability to ban books in grade school libraries is
necessary, but it should only be done at the local level, not any
higher level, IMO.)

It should be done by librarians.  Not by the school board, not by the PTA,
not by the city council.  Selection of books should be done by librarians
because that is their job.
--scott
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