Alberta K-12 Schulen, um eine altersgerechte Buchrichtlinie zu haben
https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/alberta-to-create-guideline-for-age-appropriate-books-allowed-in-k-12-schools/
Alberta K-12 Schulen, um eine altersgerechte Buchrichtlinie zu haben
https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/alberta-to-create-guideline-for-age-appropriate-books-allowed-in-k-12-schools/
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Burying the lede with the list of four examples at the bottom; three books about gay people and one about becoming an atheist. You can’t make this stuff up.
I’m not really inclined to defend the literary value of any of this, excepting Bechdel (which is a hilarious pick, by the way), and I get that the standards for a graphic novel are going to be different than they would be for a text without images. Still, this all seems pretty silly. Even K-9 caps out at 15 year olds; at 15 I was using the school library to read Joyce, & Woolf, & Hemingway, &c. These kids are three years shy of adulthood. They can read adult books without keeling over dead.
Even in „progressive“ spaces, everything has become awfully Protect The Children the last few years. It’s like a civilization-level neurosis. Hard to make sense of, or talk about, without trying to defend this or that particular image of lesbian sex — which of course, makes you sound like a special sort of pervert.
See, the big mistake is having books *with pictures*. When I was in primary school I was casually reading things by Clive Barker that were objectively orders of magnitude more graphic than anything here, and nobody cared. Why? Because it was all text, and to get upset at *text* takes a level of abstraction that the contemporary „tHiNk Of ThE cHiLdReN“ crowd is literally mentally incapable of.
Does anyone remember Judy Blume books? I wonder what the modern tHiNk Of ThE cHiLdReN“ crowd would make of those
I love how they pretend that many children in their own province aren’t dealing with far worse horrors in their lives on a daily basis. But they don’t care about those kids.
It’s pretty obvious what the issue is if you read the article and click the links. I would re-post it here but I’m not sure it would pass moderation here (yes, I’m serious).
The four examples the govt of Alberta cited are:
* Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
* Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
* Blankets by Craig Thompson
* Flamer by Mike Curator
*Blankets* in particular is a surprising choice. It’s a sweet and tender story about first love, and navigating the skepticism of a religious upbringing.
The five example quotes the govt uses are all things that (children) bullies say in flashbacks, or that out of touch religious characters *imagine* and clutch their pearls at. This last example is particularly ironic in this context because the priest is trying to scare the young artist about all the disgusting things he’ll see at an art school (including drawing from life). The priest is so out of touch that he sees drawing the human form as inherently sexual.