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  Posted By: melbee1971 @ 08/22/2008 11:08:29 PM

  WARNING: Please, PLEASE.... Trust your children's teachers. Even if you don't always agree with them.
  
  Teachers, whether they are whatever box you want to put them in, are essential good people. We have got to learn to let them DO THEIR JOBS! If there are "cursed words" in contemporary literature, they have been trained to deal with it. They are working very hard and facing community, administration, union, and student pressures all at once: All for a relatively living wage.

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  Posted By: dfitzsimmons @ 08/04/2008 8:41:28 AM

  Once again I am beside myself as to the complete throw away society we have become. We throw away the old, the sick, the young, the impaired, and apparently we feel we have enough good teachers to just start throwing them away as well. Its time to wake up people in order to reach all the youth and give them an education they have to be in school for one and motivated for two. After all they are who will be here when we are all gone running things right! This book is fantastic and they can relate to it. I have a high school student who saw the movie and read the book and who has been reading and writing in a joural. It has improved writing skills and shows that hard work and dedication pays off. I have read the book and seen the movie as well. If people are afraid of a little cursing and true emotions of how someone is feeling then they are probally not dealing well with life in general. I thank Erin Gruwell and Connie Heermann and all the other teachers who have taken the time to make a difference to the youth of America who I feel have been screaming out to us for help for years! The Township Board has made a devistating mistake that has not only impacted its teachers but its youth and its future !

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  Posted By: Frustrated in Indiana @ 08/03/2008 10:39:10 PM

  As far as I can tell, the Perry Township School Board is a "run-away board," or as others have called it, a "teflon board." They seem completely unaware of (or uninterested in) the storm of continuing world-wide public outrage over this issue of book censorhip and "cruel and unusual" sentencing of an obviously dedicated, caring teacher. This unforunately is the result of the structure of the board as much as the participants in it. Until there is more "checks and balances" or "oversight" to school boards, this outrageous behavior will continue.
  
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