Follow Friday

Follow Friday is a blog hop hosted by Parajunkee's View.

This week's question:

What book that hasn't been turned into a movie (yet) would you most like to see make it to the big screen, and who would you like cast as your favorite character?

Answer:

I’m horrible at this type question, but I’m gonna go with the Hex Hall series and would cast Britt Robertson of Life Unexpected and the new series The Secret Circle. Of course she would have to dye her hair darker, but I think she’s just the right mixture of spunky and cute to play Sophie.

This week’s question:

How do you feel about the censorship of the freedom to read? Do you think the education system needs to be more strict on what children are exposed to in books?

Answer:

I pretty much ignore it as much as possible. I’m a liberal democrat and a bibliophile so of COURSE it annoys me, but it doesn’t really affect me. When I was a kid no one told me I couldn’t read something. The closest to be told no to reading something would be in 5th grade when my aunt gave me a copy of Anne Frank unabridged. It has quite a descriptive entry about the female anatomy. And when I took it school I was told to keep it at home.

That being said, I don’t think the school should decide what children can and cannot read. I don’t think the educational system is in charge of what my (future) children are exposed to.

I live in Texas. The state that influences textbooks the most. Honestly, that alone terrifies me. Intelligent design is taught in some public schools as fact and evolution is ignored. Private schools are primarily religious schools and in a family where acceptance of all cultures is going to be of utmost importance. I am against the educational system telling my children that one religious belief is the most legitimate. And through removing books on a often religious basis they are telling them that they can’t read these books because gay is wrong, sex is something to be ashamed of, and real issues shouldn’t be discussed.

So no, I don’t approve of banning books in any way.

I do think books should have a rating system like every other type of media. I’m aware this is a sticky situation, but there is no way parents can pre-read every book that children read and books are the only sort of media that I can think of that don’t have their own rating system.

Wow, that went long.

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