The Pitch profiles Gregg Motley, the guy behind the effort to ban every interesting book in the Blue Valley School district. Obviously, no one ever told the poor schmuck that the best way to make sure that kids never read a book is to assign it as homework.
An interesting item from the article: Motley had a stepson who he sent back into foster care after his wife's death. I'm sure he had a good reason for what is seemingly a pretty cruel act. Maybe he never read the Bible either considering that it's a book filled with murder, sex, debauchery, war, Jews and really freaky stuff that's reminiscent of an LSD flashback near the end. Link via TFK.
I read the article. At first, I thought it was going to be about book banning, then it went off into ten million different directions.
ReplyDeleteBook banning is insane. Trying to ban a book will only have kids wanting to read it more. Way to go, dumbasses.