Off a stream that Historian posted in Whats Going On in Europe
Nazi era, like deletion of books before Obama in CanadaCanadian Library Purges All Books Published Before Obama Took OfficeIn case you weren't sufficiently stoked to celebrate next year's Super-Centennial the 250th anniversary of our nation's birth maybe it's time to look again at how things are going in Canada, where Loyalists fled after 1776.
The CBC reports:
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Harry Potter, The Hunger Games and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.
Those are all examples of books Reina Takata says she can no longer find in her public high school library in Mississauga, Ont., which she visits on her lunch hour most days.
In May, Takata says the shelves at Erindale Secondary School were full of books, but she noticed that they had gradually started to disappear. When she returned to school this fall, things were more stark.
"This year, I came into my school library and there are rows and rows of empty shelves with absolutely no books," said Takata, who started Grade 10 last week.
She estimates more than 50 per cent of her school's library books are gone.
In the spring, Takata says students were told by staff that "if the shelves look emptier right now it's because we have to remove all books [published] prior to 2008."
What now? How could librarians possibly justify such a crackpot policy? It's imposed by the province's government:
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Takata is one of several Peel District School Board (PDSB) students … CBC Toronto spoke to who are concerned about a seemingly inconsistent approach to a new equity-based book weeding process implemented by the board last spring in response to a provincial directive from the Minister of Education.
They say the new process, intended to ensure library books are inclusive, appears to have led some schools to remove thousands of books solely because they were published in 2008 or earlier.
Such madness isn't confined to Canada. When I taught English composition to freshmen at Louisiana State University in the early 1990s, my faculty mentor told me to stop assigning readings by G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, and anyone else who used "sexist" language. When I objected that such a standard would ban virtually everything published before the late 1980s, she simply shrugged. Of course, I simply defied her.
And now you know why I don't use my Ph.D. to teach at a university.
https://stream.org/the-brew-trump-administration-prevails-over-british-censorship-plan/ Searching for Lone Star: A Tale of Two Brothers
https://tcupress.tcu.edu/9780875659862/
