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Article: YOU CAN CENSOR YOUR KIDS' READING, BUT LEAVE THE REST OF US ALONE.(OPINION)(TIM KELLEY)(Column)
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- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- November 5, 2002
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Byline: Tim Kelley
Oregon schools took a firm stand for parental responsibility last week by refusing to ban a bad book from the middle school library.
Parents who object to what their children are reading have every right and responsibility to steer their kids away from it. But most parents know it's not their right to make reading decisions for all the other kids in town as well.
One parent who doesn't get it recently filed a complaint with Oregon superintendent Linda Barrows about British author Louise Rennison's latest book, "Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas," which takes its title from a slang term for breasts.
The parent called it ...