Posted on May 27, 2006 by Marsha James

Well, I have to say that I am surprised that the ban was rejected since officials usually start a bonfire whenever someone so much as points a bad finger at a book. Leslie Pinney was the only board member who wanted books replaced including Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five.

She is adamant about it, because a few has a curse word or two and one talks about drugs. However Pinney then goes on to admit that she never even read the novels. She may have looked through them to specifically find things she wouldn’t like but she didn’t read them and instead picks out a few things and says that the entire book is unfit for schools and should be tossed.

Good work. I guess the students should flip through their workbooks to get a specific answer and not learn anything else?