Subject: re: salinger salinger everywhereq
From: Robbie (shok@netcom.com)
Date: Wed Feb 02 2000 - 01:46:52 EST
Quoth Meredith:
<< my honors american lit teacher last year refused to teach it because
parents complained the year before, so its banned....so im wondering how
many people today get exposed to it..any of you other high school
students on the list, is it a part of the curriculum?? >>
I never had to read any Salinger for school, but one of the English
teachers where I attend has his sophomores read Catcher; I just didn't
have his class.
I can't imagine having parents complaining about it, though. Maybe the
local culture is just *that* different around here. The schools aren't
that good (actually, a lot of them are known for being quite the
opposite) but we have lots of proud "outside of the box" thinkers - and
banning Catcher strikes me as just plain silly; that would never fly
here. A few teachers at my school are graduates of Stanford (it's just
on the other side of the Bay), and just about *everyone else* is a
graduate of Berkeley. And I mean *everyone*. Cal vs. Stanford sporting
events get everybody riled up. (I had a physics teacher proudly tell my
class that, "only one university has had an element named after it, and
let's just say that there sure as Hell isn't a Stanfordium.") It's a
pretty liberal community.
I've read books for school that were far more objectionable than
anything Salinger has ever published.
-robbie
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