Hands Off Poetry!
HANDS OFF POETRY!We strongly oppose the censoring of Carol Ann Duffy's poem Education for Leisure by the examination board AQA, which has removed it from its anthology because it deals with the conten... continue reading »
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"Come on, AQA, grow up!"
"I was saddened to hear from my outraged daughter in her GCSE final year about another body of supposedly educated political sycophants actions, the book "anthology" is already published and in the hands of students who will no doubt all run amok, I am not"
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"What dreadful education AQA curriculum setters must have endured."
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"not AQA's place to censor poetry"
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"This poem invites discussion about knife crime - this is a good thing! We need to be more open in order to expose the issues in our society. Pretending that nothing is wrong and banning 'dangerous' literature is ridiculous! Do they only want us to study p"
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"If read correctly, knife crime and other violent acts ( and the circumstances in which they exist) is exactly what the poem is protesting about."
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"get real - reinstate this poem. What are YOU afraid of?"
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