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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"The poem would be read in the context of a teacher led discussion - a perfect place for raising and considering thoughtfully the issues raised by the poem. Knife crime does exist and examining possible reasons for this with young people seems to me very v"
"Bureaucrats are bureacrats for a reason and shouldn't presume to intefere with culture."
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"The poem is quite sophisticated, and therefore should be taught in schools - any fool can see that it offers a critique of society's hypocrisy concerning the aesthetization of violence. If taught correctly and intelligently, children will get it. I am tir"
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"There's much nastier stuff in 'Wuthering Heights'. Who shall we ban next? Dylan Thomas for boozing; Coleridge for his laudanum habit; Blake for revolutionary thinking; Shakespeare's love pems to a youth? Marlowe & Byron deserve the chop for just about"
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"literary and artistic freedomfor all means no censorship"
""O calm, dishonourable, vile submission!""
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"Education is not about feeding p.c. opinions to students, but about making them think for themselves."
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