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In addition to all the Intelligent Design stupidity in Kansas, now the state Board of Education Chair has made the following hysterical claim:
And just what are these pornographic marvels being peddled to the kiddies in Kansas? Well, let's look at the list:
-All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy -- National Book Award, 1992
-Animal Dreams, by Barbara Kingsolver -- PEN fiction prize and Edward Abbey Ecofiction Award, 1991
-The Awakening, by Kate Chopin -- The 1899 classic
-The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver --American Library Association, 1988
-Beloved, by Toni Morrison -- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Beloved, Toni Morrison won the National Book Awards NBF Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and the Nobel Prize for Literature.
-Black Boy, by Richard Wright -- Named among the top 25 non-fiction works of the century
-Fallen Angels, by Walter Dean Meyers -- Coretta Scott King Author Book Award, 1988
-Hot Zone, by Richard Preston -- 42 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list
-I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou -- Nominated for a National Book Award, 1970
-Lords of Discipline, by Pat Conroy -- Conroy won a humanitarian award from the National Education Association for The Water is Wide, 1972
-One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey -- made into an Academy Award-winning movie
-Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison -- National Book Critics Circle Award, 1977
-Stotan, by Chris Crutcher -- Best Books for Young Adult Readers American Library Association, 1986; Best of the Best in Young Adult Literature, School Library Journal
-This Boy's Life, by Tobias Wolff -- From a PEN/Faulkner award winner
Now, I'm sure that all of these books have been read by some Apolytoner here or another. I would request you post, in the most salacious detail possible, the pornographic aspects of these works.
Especially "The Hot Zone."
In spite of the fact that... a large percentage of parents do not want evolution taught as dogma in the science classroom, what is the response from some of the school superintendents around Kansas?
They seem to indicate, "We don't care what the state board does, and we don't care what parents want. We are going to continue teaching evolution just as we have been doing." [BG: why on earth should what parents want have any iota of effect on what is taught in a science course, anyway?]
But I guess we shouldn't be surprised, because superintendents and local school boards in some districts continue to promulgate pornography as "literature," even though many parents have petitioned the local boards to remove the porn. Obviously, that is a different issue from the science standards, but it still points out the lack of commitment on the part of administration in some districts to allow parents to control the education for their own children.
They seem to indicate, "We don't care what the state board does, and we don't care what parents want. We are going to continue teaching evolution just as we have been doing." [BG: why on earth should what parents want have any iota of effect on what is taught in a science course, anyway?]
But I guess we shouldn't be surprised, because superintendents and local school boards in some districts continue to promulgate pornography as "literature," even though many parents have petitioned the local boards to remove the porn. Obviously, that is a different issue from the science standards, but it still points out the lack of commitment on the part of administration in some districts to allow parents to control the education for their own children.
-All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy -- National Book Award, 1992
-Animal Dreams, by Barbara Kingsolver -- PEN fiction prize and Edward Abbey Ecofiction Award, 1991
-The Awakening, by Kate Chopin -- The 1899 classic
-The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver --American Library Association, 1988
-Beloved, by Toni Morrison -- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Beloved, Toni Morrison won the National Book Awards NBF Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and the Nobel Prize for Literature.
-Black Boy, by Richard Wright -- Named among the top 25 non-fiction works of the century
-Fallen Angels, by Walter Dean Meyers -- Coretta Scott King Author Book Award, 1988
-Hot Zone, by Richard Preston -- 42 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list
-I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou -- Nominated for a National Book Award, 1970
-Lords of Discipline, by Pat Conroy -- Conroy won a humanitarian award from the National Education Association for The Water is Wide, 1972
-One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey -- made into an Academy Award-winning movie
-Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison -- National Book Critics Circle Award, 1977
-Stotan, by Chris Crutcher -- Best Books for Young Adult Readers American Library Association, 1986; Best of the Best in Young Adult Literature, School Library Journal
-This Boy's Life, by Tobias Wolff -- From a PEN/Faulkner award winner
Now, I'm sure that all of these books have been read by some Apolytoner here or another. I would request you post, in the most salacious detail possible, the pornographic aspects of these works.
Especially "The Hot Zone."
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