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<blockquote data-quote="Emelee" data-source="post: 318474" data-attributes="member: 73">Being a teacher myself, I know that I and a number of my colleagues work with our pupils reading many of these novels. They are terrific. Great writing and so many topics to discuss and to analyze. Of Mice and Men, for example. There&#039;s rasism to discuss, poverty after the big economy crash, how people are treated simply because they are or look different from the norm and how there&#039;s just one woman in the novel and she doesn&#039;t even get a name. Why on earth ban this novel when it can teach us so much? The Hate U Give is banned for profanity. Such a stupid reason for banning a novel. 1984 by Orwell. Why??? Pupils can&#039;t tell the difference between reality and dystopian fiction? Harry Potter is banned for including &quot;actual spells&quot; and can therefore bring on evil spirits. People..............</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Emelee, post: 318474, member: 73"] Being a teacher myself, I know that I and a number of my colleagues work with our pupils reading many of these novels. They are terrific. Great writing and so many topics to discuss and to analyze. Of Mice and Men, for example. There's rasism to discuss, poverty after the big economy crash, how people are treated simply because they are or look different from the norm and how there's just one woman in the novel and she doesn't even get a name. Why on earth ban this novel when it can teach us so much? The Hate U Give is banned for profanity. Such a stupid reason for banning a novel. 1984 by Orwell. Why??? Pupils can't tell the difference between reality and dystopian fiction? Harry Potter is banned for including "actual spells" and can therefore bring on evil spirits. People.............. [/QUOTE]

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