"Bunny Suicides"

The book of cartoons "Bunny Suicides" has been allowed to remain in a public High School library after complaints from a parent. 

While I find these cartoons hilarious, and I am all for the First Amendment, I'm not sure that it belongs at a school.  Public library, by all means.  I don't see how this book made it into the public school system in first place.  Shouldn't books in a school library have to pass approval, and shouldn't they be at least slightly educational?   Your thoughts?

Original Post by santonacci:

Original Post by kajikit:

If that parent's biggest issue is REALLY the chance that their teenage kid might read the bunny suicide book at school, they must lead a charmed life! 

Nah - it's the second.  The biggest is, obviously, Harry Potter.  (In my public school years it was Huckleberry Finn and Are You There God, It's Me Margaret)

We had a bowdlerized textbook edition of The Diary Of Anne Frank, though the complete book was available in any local bookstore. Apparently what they felt needed to be removed were some entries from before the family goes into hiding, where Anne details some innocent exploration with a female friend. How odd that censors would find this more perturbing then the fact that these people were murdered in an act of mass genocide...

Original Post by coffincritter:

Original Post by santonacci:

Original Post by kajikit:

If that parent's biggest issue is REALLY the chance that their teenage kid might read the bunny suicide book at school, they must lead a charmed life! 

Nah - it's the second.  The biggest is, obviously, Harry Potter.  (In my public school years it was Huckleberry Finn and Are You There God, It's Me Margaret)

 

We had a bowdlerized textbook edition of The Diary Of Anne Frank, though the complete book was available in any local bookstore. Apparently what they felt needed to be removed were some entries from before the family goes into hiding, where Anne details some innocent exploration with a female friend. How odd that censors would find this more perturbing then the fact that these people were murdered in an act of mass genocide...

Exposure to the darker side of life doesn't seem to offend (Lord of the Flies was required reading for me) whereas exposure to the licentious seems to have activiest up in arms (please folks, we weren't conceived immaculately and by 13 it's been figured out).

Bunnies kicking aliens in the junk = MADE OF 100% PURE WIN!

As to it being in a high school library, the way I look at it HS libraries should probably stick to scholastic fare. It's not like they're rolling in cash. However, if the book is already ordered might as well let some people enjoy it.

It's not going to be the one thing that turns a perfect grades future Rhodes scholar into an overnight degenerate. Hormones do a fine job of that all on their own, no outside influence necessary.