Help us remove the book, The Chocolate War from the Mobile County Public School Systems required reading list for Eighth Graders
Below you will find a press release about the Mobile County School system requiring children in the eight grade to read The Chocolate War, by Richard Cormier. This petition's intent is to get the scho... continue reading »
"Prayer not profanity is needed at school"
"what a bunch of smut and my child isin the eight grade and to think that my eighth grader will have to read this no way he will get a big fat O for that"
"I would never allow my son to read a book of this nature for school or any other time because all it would do is get his mind on other things when he in fact should be worrying about school work !"
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"Someone should be hung out to dry for this"
"Unbelievable. Thank you for bringing this to our attention. I read all my childrens' books also; this book just wasn't chosen."
"Please do not require this book to read. Our children should not have to be subjected to this kind of reading in a public school."
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"I am a teacher at HMS. I believe there are thousands of other books that would better serve our children. Please Remove this Book! Thank You!"
"Hopefully this was an oversite, but please remove the book from the reading list."
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"MCPSS Shopuld be ASHAMED for letting this trash into our school system. No wonder there are such language and sexual problems with our youth. This book needs to be banned from any library where children can get to it."
"MORTIFIED THIS COULD EVER BE REQUIRED READING AT ANY GRADE LEVEL"
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"As a former children's librarian and teacher, I had heard of but not read this book. Assuming the quotes here to be accurate I know that I would find it extremely difficult to teach this to any student, middle school or otherwise. Therefore I can only rec"
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"My child is entering the 8th grade next year (2008) and WILL NOT read this book"