4 Replies to “Chicago schools ban Iran-critical book, Persepolis”
If they ban it for one grade it won’t be long before they ban in for all grades.
The pooh pooing over the violence is stupid – kids at that age can handle it. But there’s a lot of other stuff in the book that’s not appropriate for 7th graders at all. The protagonist at one point becomes a drug dealer, homeless and engages in prostitution.
While it’s fine for 10th grade and up it is not appropriate at all for 7th graders.
I am amazed and very pleased that it is in the schools in the first place. Though I think students should be reading real books instead of graphic novels, graphic novels are a good way to teach as you absorb them differently than a book or movie. The same messages would be lost on students if encountered in book or movie form.
I am very surprised that the Chicago Teachers Union is actually on the correct side of this issue.
– Anonymous
Yes. I noticed that. Since Persepolis places the Islamic regime of Iran in a bad light it would be more typical of leftist teachers to be against it than to be for it. Maybe the teachers are just too dumb in Chicago to figure out that the correct action for good unionists would be to ban the book and stand in solidarity with their Muslim brothers in Iran.
Or, perhaps, a few teachers have actually figured out that backing the formation of a worldwide Islamic government might not be such a good idea, since they – you know – throw acid in little girls’ faces for the crime of wanting to learn to read. The book, or at least the movie, which is what I’ve seen, is a dire warning to socialist useful idiots after all, since they are entirely to blame for what happened in Iran – which was a great country before they ruined it. If the left ever figures out that they should not be backing the Islamists, even if it does mean agreeing with Michelle Bachman and Newt Gingrich, the Islamic supremacy movement is going to be in plenty big trouble. We do, after all, have it withing our power to stop these buggers in their tracks.
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If they ban it for one grade it won’t be long before they ban in for all grades.
The pooh pooing over the violence is stupid – kids at that age can handle it. But there’s a lot of other stuff in the book that’s not appropriate for 7th graders at all. The protagonist at one point becomes a drug dealer, homeless and engages in prostitution.
While it’s fine for 10th grade and up it is not appropriate at all for 7th graders.
I am amazed and very pleased that it is in the schools in the first place. Though I think students should be reading real books instead of graphic novels, graphic novels are a good way to teach as you absorb them differently than a book or movie. The same messages would be lost on students if encountered in book or movie form.
I am very surprised that the Chicago Teachers Union is actually on the correct side of this issue.
– Anonymous
Yes. I noticed that. Since Persepolis places the Islamic regime of Iran in a bad light it would be more typical of leftist teachers to be against it than to be for it. Maybe the teachers are just too dumb in Chicago to figure out that the correct action for good unionists would be to ban the book and stand in solidarity with their Muslim brothers in Iran.
Or, perhaps, a few teachers have actually figured out that backing the formation of a worldwide Islamic government might not be such a good idea, since they – you know – throw acid in little girls’ faces for the crime of wanting to learn to read. The book, or at least the movie, which is what I’ve seen, is a dire warning to socialist useful idiots after all, since they are entirely to blame for what happened in Iran – which was a great country before they ruined it. If the left ever figures out that they should not be backing the Islamists, even if it does mean agreeing with Michelle Bachman and Newt Gingrich, the Islamic supremacy movement is going to be in plenty big trouble. We do, after all, have it withing our power to stop these buggers in their tracks.