The kids who want to read these books will buy them. The kids who aren't interested in reading (and that's the primary reason to put graphic novels of books on bookshelves.), won't care. Or will miss out, because they can't afford to buy books. Which is one of the purposes of public schools: to make reading materials and other materials available to rich and poor alike. The other purpose is to get the kids who don't want to read, to read something. But screw those kids, right? This is a public school! We don't want kids to be interested in books! What kinda Commie crap is that?They banned a graphic novel version of “The Lottery”? https://t.co/IBz0OYrgSw
— Jane Coaston (@janecoaston) December 3, 2021
So Leander has violated that public trust, too. I suspect the backstory on this is a push by a vocal minority in the school district, rather than the discovery that these books were grossly inappropriate for grade level. A lot of these are banned from literature classrooms. I wonder if they're allowed to read Fahrenheit 451? Or 1984? Or Borges Library of Babel? Because I'd start assigning those immediately. Or maybe just show the movies in the classroom.
But then I'm old, and I'd be bucking for forced retirement. "O Captain, my captain!" Yeah, it looked like a lot more fun when Robin Williams did it. Too bad real life is not like that.
And in answer to the question in the tweet: pictures, man. I'm tellin' ya, it's the pictures. People get a lot more upset about seein' it in pictures than readin' about it in words. I'm really not so sure we're all that literate a society anyway. Pictures speak louder. People get real upset by the pictures.
I can't help but think if I read the graphic novel I'd miss the original. It would make about as much sense to me as doing a word-novel version of Fun Home which is a masterpiece.
ReplyDeleteThey're trying to put Republican-fascists in as many offices as they can, they don't care about the issue at all. Harold Hill showed what they're doing with a Capitol T that rhymes with P.