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THE COLOROSO CONTROVERSY, CONTINUED
Quillblog
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May 22 2008
Canada
There's more reaction to the Toronto District School Board's decision
to pull Barbara Coloroso's Extraordinary Evil from a Grade 11 course
(see Quillblog past). The Board was bowing to pressure from the
local Turkish community over references to the Armenian genocide
in Coloroso's book, a characterization Turkey has always vehemently
denied.
Now The Writers' Union of Canada chair Susan Swan has posted a
statement about the case on its website. It reads, in part:
It is completely unacceptable for those responsible for educating the
citizens of tomorrow to remove valuable titles every time an interest
group brings forth a complaint. If so, your library shelves would be
bare indeed.
Swan adds that she'll also be lobbying TDSB executive Gerry Connelly
directly. At the time of this post, still no official statement from
Coloroso's publisher, Penguin Canada.
Quillblog
http://www.quillandquire.com/ blog/?p=2027&akst_action=share-this
May 22 2008
Canada
There's more reaction to the Toronto District School Board's decision
to pull Barbara Coloroso's Extraordinary Evil from a Grade 11 course
(see Quillblog past). The Board was bowing to pressure from the
local Turkish community over references to the Armenian genocide
in Coloroso's book, a characterization Turkey has always vehemently
denied.
Now The Writers' Union of Canada chair Susan Swan has posted a
statement about the case on its website. It reads, in part:
It is completely unacceptable for those responsible for educating the
citizens of tomorrow to remove valuable titles every time an interest
group brings forth a complaint. If so, your library shelves would be
bare indeed.
Swan adds that she'll also be lobbying TDSB executive Gerry Connelly
directly. At the time of this post, still no official statement from
Coloroso's publisher, Penguin Canada.