Interesting Twist

Here's some information I came across as it relates to the Blue Valley situation. Check it out.

Students, ACLU and NAACP Join Battle against Book Removals in Kansas

The American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas and Western Missouri is joining forces with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and concerned parents, educators and students of the Blue Valley school district to oppose the removal of fourteen books from the district curriculum. The removal is being called for by a new organization, the Citizens for Literary Standards in Schools (abbreviated ClassKC), who oppose the books primarily due to profanity and sexual explicitness. Students are organizing against these efforts by circulating a counter petition and creating a website to fight for their right to read the challenged books. To visit the students' site, click here. To see ClassKC's site, click here. To read more about the controversy in Blue Valley, click here.

Here are the links:
http://www.freewebs.com/studentsspeakout/
http://www.classkc.org/
http://www.kidspeakonline.org/classkc.htm



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Sasha Mushegian, a 15-year-old student of the Blue Valley School District, spoke out in The Kansas Star against efforts to remove some of her favorite books from her school's curriculum. To read her editorial, click here. To read about the Blue Valley School District's Citizens for Literary Standards in Schools, the group whose efforts Sasha opposes,

http://www.kidspeakonline.org/sasha.htm
http://www.classkc.org/