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[Education Law]
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Education
Law. If you ever wonder about your legal rights, here is the place
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a parent complains about a text, don't allow them to yell at you. Have
them fill out this form (see below). |
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Request for Reconsideration of a Work Author ____________________________________________
Paperback_____ Hardcover _____ Title _____________________________________________
Publisher (if known) ______________________________ Request initiated
by ______________________________ Telephone _________________________________________
Address ___________________________________________ City ______________________________________________
Zip Code __________________________________________ Complainant represents
____ Himself/Herself ____ (Name organization) __________________________
____ (Identify other group) _______________________ 1. Have you been able
to discuss this work with the teacher or librarian who ordered it or who
used it? ____ Yes ____ No 2. What do you understand to be the general
purpose for using this work? a. Provide support for a unit in the curriculum?
___ Yes ___ No b. Provide a learning experience for the reader in one
kind of literature? ___ Yes ___ No c. Other __________________________________________
___________________________________________________ d. Did the general
purpose for the use of the work, as described by the teacher or librarian,
seem a suit- able one to you? ____Yes ____ No If not, please explain.
___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________
4. What do you think is the general purpose of the auth- or in this book?
___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________
5. In what ways do you think a work of this nature is not suitable for
the use the teacher or librarian wishes to carry out? ___________________________________________________
___________________________________________________ 6. Have you been able
to learn what is the students' response to this work? ____ Yes ____ No
7. What response did the students make? ___________________________________________________
___________________________________________________ 8. Have you been able
to learn from your school library what book reviewers or other students
of literature have written about this work? ____ Yes ____ No 9. Would
you like the teacher or librarian to give you a written summary of what
book reviewers and other students have written about this book or film?
____ Yes ____ No 10. Do you have negative reviews of the book? ____ Yes
____ No 11. Where were they published? __________________________________________________
12. Would you be willing to provide summaries of the reviews you have
collected? ____ Yes ____ No 13. What would you like your library/school
to do about this work? ____ Do not assign/lend it to my child. ____ Return
it to the staff selection committee/department for reevaluation. ____
Other--Please explain __________________________________________________
__________________________________________________ 14. In its place, what
work would you recommend that would convey as valuable a picture and perspective
of the subject treated? __________________________________________________
__________________________________________________ Signature ________________________________________
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| Problems
with Censorship? This should be your first phone call |
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NCTE
offers immediate advice, helpful documents, and other support at
no cost to K-12 teachers, schools, and districts that are faced with challenges
to literary works, films, and videos, or teaching methods. Leave a message
at 1-800-369-6283, ext. 3848, or call Charles
Suhor, NCTE/SLATE Field Representative, directly at 334-280-4758.
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| Quotations
On Censorship |
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Charles
Daney's page
provides several dozen quotations, and an extensive set of links to other
sites; unfortunately, he seems not to have updated this for several years,
so you can expect some broken links. |
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| Question
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Have
you ever had a parent complain about your curriculum? |
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| Random
Good Thing |
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Student
membership to the NCTE |
