Georgians Maintain Grip On Sanity
Written by Brian Garst, Posted in Liberty & Limited Government
It seems some people are still capable of resisting complainers.
The Georgia Board of Education voted Thursday to uphold a local school board’s decision to leave Harry Potter books on library shelves despite a mother’s objections.
The board members voted without discussion to back the Gwinnett County school board’s decision to deny Laura Mallory’s request to remove the best-selling books.
Mallory, who has three children in elementary school, has worked for more than a year to ban the books from Gwinnett schools, claiming the books try to indoctrinate children in witchcraft.
“It’s mainstreaming witchcraft in a subtle and deceptive manner, in a children-friendly format,” said Mallory, who is considering a legal challenge of the board’s ruling. “The kind of stuff in these books–murder and greed and violence. Why do they have to read them in school?”
Waaaah waaaaaaah waaaah. It’s a children’s book; a school library is a wholly appropriate place for Harry Potter books to be found. There are plenty of good lessons to be found in the series, including the value of standing up for what is right as this board has done.
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