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about everyone in society
makes comments during a
day that could be considered
blaphemous. He saki most of
us try to avoid using them
in our speech but habit or
reflex prevents that. He said
the use of the words is
"Habit" not a "deliberate
attempt to dishonor God."
He pointed out that the
children in the schools know
those words exist adding that
it is far better for the
children to learn about "life
language and sex" in a
controlled environment
rather than in a drug store or
out on the street.
"You trust your doctors
and your ministers you'd
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better trust your teachers,"
he warned.
Peggy Rivers told the
board she represented a
group of people in the
Goderich area "concerned.
with the quality of education
,offered" and who feel it is
worthwhile to "spend time
showing support for our
educational system, for the
board that administers it and
for the teachers involved in
it."
Y Rivers said the Goderich
group did not favor banning
the books and also was
unhappy with the methods
used by the group proposing
their banning. She said
decisions made by councils
in the county supporting the
ban were based on
quotations "arbitrarily
selected from the books by a
person or "persons." She
added that the motions by
the councils were sent to
county secondary schools
without prior consultation
with the board of education,
"an act we consider a gross
infringement on the rights
and responsibilities of the
board."
Rivers said the methods
used in selecting ob-
jectionable material from
the books made it obvious
that no "intelligent and
logical evaluation of the
literary merit and worth of
the books can be made
without a complete
evaluation of them." She
said the three books were
widely acclaimed by
scholars to be of superior
literary merit and to deprive
students of Huron the right to
study them would be to
"isolate them in a vacuum
devoid of any realistic
connection with con -
temporary society."
She said the claim that the
books and the teachers using
them were attempting to
turn our youth into "vulgar,
filthy, ungodly individuals is
absurd."
Rivers said the books have
been used in the county
system for more than ten
years and only in senior
grades by students old
enough to vote, sit on juries
and sign contracts. She said
their use had no adverse
affect to date adding that
surely a person old enough to
decide if someone is guilty of
a criminal offence is old
enough to read any book they
choose.
Rivers said that a person
reading a "book is not
necessarily influenced by the
idealogy
of it.She e said
someone reading Mein
Kampf does not
automatically become a
Nazi and someone reading
the biography of John
Diefenbaker does not
necessarily become a
Progressive Conservative.
Rivers told the board that
the "notoriety Huron County
has received by even raising
the issue is not something we
should be proud of." She said
the image the county is
receiving on a national level
as a result of the issue is
leaving "false impressions
from which we will be years
recovering."
She said the groups
presenting their support of
the materials were not ad-
vocating their mandatory
use but was protecting the
right of selection by
secondary school teachers.
She said the move to ban the
books indicated the people of
Huron felt better qualified to
judge course content than
the professional teachers
they employ.
Paul, Ross told the. board
he reresented a group of
people from the Clinton area
that opposed the proposed
banning of the books. Ross
told the board that he didn't
feel the material in the books
was obscene but that the
method used to make them
appear obscene was "to my
mind obscene."
"They used a simple
children's arithmetic
method that says the whole
is equal to the sum of the
parts," he said. "they've
taken parts of the novels and
said that these equal the
'total and that is an ob-
scenity."
Ross said that the teachers
in countythe shouldleft
be
with the decisions they are
trained to make. He said
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they have the expertise to
decide if material isfit for
use in county classrooms and
are trained and hired to
make those decisions.
A public meeting on the
issue of the book banning will
be held in Clinton June 13 at
the high school. Authors
Pierre Berton and June
Callwood are expected to
attend.
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