New Adventures of Queen Victoria by Pab Sungenis for September 29, 2009

LOL… thanks Pab! this is going to be a terrific week of strips~~~

Hey! good editing helps good writing be even better. This comment was originally 500 words. Of course, most edits are done before publishing….

And idiots like this will be the first to scream “censorship!” if held accountable for what they say.

“I don’t like the gannet - they wet their nests…”

…The repu-nazi are coming the repu-nazi are coming…or ..freedom for only those we think deserve it…

Never heard of the book. Anyone know what it’s about?

It’s a collection of poems by teens. Lots of subjects dealt with, including, to various degrees, sexuality, the drug scene, abuse and gangs. Might not be much left of the book if the principal in question is easily offended.

Maybe he’s just a grammar freak… shouldn’t it be “Paint Me AS I am”?

Our copies of “The Awakening” in high school showed this woman wearing a “toga” with one of her breasts exposed–or so we figured since someone had diligently colored it in with a black sharpie on every copy. Yeah–that made it totally un-noticeable.

“Here’s your book. Now, buy it.” “I can’t buy that. It’s torn.”

hey, that’s as bad as the gocomics people shielding our tender eyes from words like @ss or d@mn….. It really get’s me when movies broadcast on commerical TV take out the word @ss and leave in the knife plunging into the chest or the gunshot to the head

Gotta give the public what it wants… otherwise it’s censorship!

While I’m against censorship of adult materials for adults, I’m not sure that sexual lifestyles, colorful language, and the like are all that appropriate for materials in the school system. Part of the problem with education today is that too much attention is paid to classes which don’t adequately promote literacy, which should be the ultimate goal of schooling, imho.

Yes, there probably are materials that are not appropriate for some young people at certain points of their development. But, as a school system that decision should be made prior to buying the book. It is not censorship to not purchase the book but it is to rip out pages, color over phrases etc. Also, I feel as a parent I should be able to decide if a book is appropriate or not for my child and not someone in power at any level.

Back in the 1970s (i think) the Greater London Council planned to remove all books older than fifteen years from school libraries, because they were “no longer relevant”

@ Misng NOLA

Sorry couldn’t resist.

If you are championing literacy in schooling what does the little item at the end of your post stand for?

ME AGAIN

Thanks openminded for trying to help

I guess the irony was only amusing to me

NOLA was defending literacy in school and then using twitter short forms.

Hence my apology in advance in first post

The local school board (in 1967) provided “sanitized” copies of “Rome and Juliet” for our use. My English teacher, God bless him, made us go out and buy the unexpurgated version – and that’s what we worked from!

Allen, I appreciate your point, although that abbreviation has been around much longer than Twitter has, and is in common usage on internet bulletin boards. Just trying to save space, colon, close parenthesis, smiley emoticon.