1.) I am very surprised about what books made the banned books list. When I went to a website, I was surprised when I saw that The Bible was number one. I don’t agree with the lists for many reasons. First, most of these books are classics and tell us what life was like back when they were written. I think people wanted to ban these books because they exposed the truth, which involved using bad language and sometimes gruesome events. I don’t believe that books should be banned from public libraries or schools. I think this because we have the freedoms and authors should be able to write about whatever they want to and we should be able to read it. I don’t think young readers should need special permission to read these books because they should have the right to be able to read whatever they want.
2.) I don’t agree with Obama’s plan to extend the school year. I understand that if we do school work during the summer, it will keep our brains functioning and we wouldn’t have to spend as much time catching up on what we learned the year before. But I think that if they want us to remember what we learned the previous year, the school should give us some kind of assignment to do over the summer in each subject, so we cannot forget things. I know that when I got back to school after summer vacation, I can barely remember some math that I learned in eighth grade, so I think that summer assignments would help us to remember things. I have heard that students are more focused later in the day, so I think that the schools should probably start and end the school day later. the only problem with this is that a lot of students do school sports and by the time they get home, they are up until late at night to finish homework. So if they move the school hours later, it could create an even bigger problem and students wouldn’t get enough sleep. Basically, what I’m saying is that Obama shouldn’t do anything to the school year and that it is just about right as it is.
1). Banning certain books can be both beneficial and not so beneficial. If the book is crude in one way or another, offending to certain races of people, or is just down-right bad, I would definitely agree to ban it. Its all a matter of freedom of speech, really. However, lately there’s been a thin line drawn that’s been crossed over. On the America Association Website, there is a list of banned books. Books you’d be surprised that were banned included the infamous Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White and….wait for it…Winnie-The-Pooh. Are you kidding me?! Although there wasn’t a clear explanation for banning these books in particular, I still disagree with it. In the same breath, I think that the people who put To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee- despite that I LOVED the book- had a point. I understand banning books from schools so kids aren’t influenced the wrong way, but I think that books should absolutely NOT be banned from public libraries. Libraries are supposed to be places where all books are and should be…
ReplyDelete2). Run the idea of extending the school year across the minds of children and chances are that you’ll get a respo0nse with a groan, a “NOOOOO!”, or a cringe. Promoted by President Barack Obama, this “fabulous” idea is beginning to be taken seriously in several news articles. Defending his plan, journalists have set out to GET. THE. STORY. Most of the articles that I’ve read concerning the topic have similarly pointed out that American students are behind countries such as China and India. Personally, I think that students would be miserable and therefore inattentive. I understand that us Americans are behind in other countries curriculum, but then why doesn’t somebody think to improve our education rather than extend it. What kid really wants extra weeks added on to the school year? I know that I, for one, don’t.