Obviously something I DID NOT draw.

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Saw this on a Hunger Games fansite and I thought it was interesting so I posted it here.

Tracy LaSalle of Goffstown said her 11-year-old daughter began having nightmares
after reading “Hunger Games,” a novel by Suzanne Collins, in her seventh-grade
class.

The first novel of a trilogy, “Hunger Games” is a story about a
post-apocalyptic future in which 24 teenagers are forced to compete in a
televised battle to the death.

During that battle, the book’s heroine,
Katniss Everdeen, must “start making choices that weigh survival against
humanity and life against love,” according to the publisher’s description of the
novel.

LaSalle told the School Board that the book was wholly
inappropriate for her daughter or any other student.

“Twenty-four
children are pitted in a life-or-death struggle with each other. The reason?
Entertainment. That’s sick,” LaSalle said. “You guys don’t want Columbine, but
you’re putting forth material that will totally desensitize the children to
murdering other children.”

During the Sept. 20 School Board meeting,
LaSalle described several graphic passages in the book where the teenage
competitors kill each other.

“What does that teach as far as honor?”
LaSalle asked. “What does that teach as far as ethics? Where is the moral lesson
in this book that’s being shown to our children?”

After hearing
LaSalle’s complaint, School Board Chairman Keith Allard asked Superintendent of
Schools Stacey Buckley to review the book. Buckley said the book will be
reviewed by a committee at the school, which will issue its findings to LaSalle
and Buckley within 30 days.

“It goes to the materials review committee,
which consists of the librarians, the principal of the building and teaching
staff,” Buckley said in an interview. “They’ll review the material and the
curriculum and determine whether it’s appropriate.”

Allard said
LaSalle’s complaint was rare for the school district, where parents typically
resolve their concerns with teachers or school administrators.

“There
may have been some more informal conversations with parents or something like
that, but this is the first one – at least in the last eight years – that it’s
come to the board level,” Allard said.

LaSalle said administrators at
Mountain View Middle School acted quickly to remove her daughter from the class
where “Hunger Games” was being taught. But LaSalle said she felt the problem was
with the book, and not her daughter.

“The answer to this situation is
not removing my daughter from the classroom,” LaSalle said. “It’s removing this
filth from the school district.”

I honestly can't believe this woman wants to ban it :L Has she even read it? LOL. tsk tsk, book discrimination.

Oh well. It's not like I care. After all, the best way to get people to read a book is to ban it. Right?


BTW: Apparently, Chloe Moretz who played the purple-wigged...girl (forgot her name) in Kickass, is actually a really strong contender for the role of Katniss is the movie production of the Hunger Games. They asked her is she would be interested and she was like, "Absolutely!" Same goes for the Little Miss Sunshine girl. I dunno though... Chloe is WAYY too young and Abigail is just ..... not right. Well hey, at least these people have read the books, unlike Mrs Stupid up there >_>

IMO, this actress would make a good Katniss :), plus she's interested so...