"I've had a large number of complaints this year that have profanity in them."
Then it should be ok for the books to have it! ;-)
Robert Eiffert, Librarian
Pacific Middle School, Vancouver WA
Pac.egreen.wednet.edu/library
Beiffert at egreen wednet edu
Beiffert at Comcast net
Melissa Small:
> Hi again, everyone! I've got another question. I was wondering what you =
> do with books children's books that have profanity in them? Do you just =
> go through the books and mark out the profanity, do you remove the books =
> from the shelves, or do you just leave the books alone? It seems like =
> I've had a large number of complaints this year that have profanity in =
> them. Many of the parents and teachers feel like these books should be =
> removed from the shelves. I hate to take a book off the shelf because it =
> has one or two bad words in them, but I really don't want to imagine the =
> time it will take me to go through all of my library books and mark out =
> any profanity that is in the book. I also had a teacher turn in a 1st =
> grade book yesterday because in the book, the characters were singing 99 =
> bottles of beer on the wall. Like the teacher said, why couldn't they =
> have been singing "the Wheels on the Bus" or something else more appropriat=
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