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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"a headmaster can request a military helicopter to land at his school in order to encourage children to join the armed forces, but a poem is banned because it is too violent -damned hypocrisy to say the least!"
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"'change and decay in all around I see'"
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"I am signing on behalf of my lovely year 11 class, who find English so difficult and have complained at everything put in front of them this year, but who, on reading 'Education for Leisure' were moved to utter the immortal phrase: "That's well good, that"
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"A crass decision by AQA, who have launched themselves on the slippery slope to censorship of literature and thought"
"Are we turning into the old USSR?"
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"Actually I think this petition is over-written and sounds more aggressive than I would wish - but that doesn't change the main point : AQA have completely missed the point of the poem. By removing this poem from the syllabus, they are directly contributin"
"Because of a complaint by some book burner masquerading as an English teacher? You should be ashamed."
"bring it back because there is far worse media out there than a poem, what about violent tv shows and film which show real graphic scences, the poem is only words and words cant hurt you!"
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