Webster Schools have decided to pull Rainbow Boys, a book about gay teen life, from a reading list after parents complained. Apparently, a few moms and dads got the vapors when they saw that the book was part of the summer reading program.
Never mind that little Johnny only has to pick two books from the hundreds of choices, or that he can choose another book by filling out a "permission to read off-list" form. The unadulterated homosexuality of Rainbow Boys polluted that list by its very presence. It was getting gay all over the place, and it had to be stopped!
I guess life is worth living in Webster -- if you're straight. If you're gay, well, not so much.
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Sent today to Ms. Carol Dellavilla -- Carol_Dellavilla@websterschools.org -- who is listed on the Webster schools website as the contact person for the reading lists:
Ms. Dellavilla,
I read (http://www.rocwriters.com/) that you recently pulled a book about gay teen life from a reading list, after some complaints, even though there were something like a hundred books (99 others) on the list, and no one was forced to read that one. If this is true, you should know that I pay lots of taxes in Webster, and have two teenagers in school, and I object in the strongest possible terms to this censorship, and to your knuckling under to this knee-jerk homophobia. As serious educators, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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Mike Williams
Posted by Mike Williams | April 24, 2007 9:09 PM
Posted on April 24, 2007 21:09