Banning Tolkien, some questions - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Altariel · 05-04-2003, 03:24 PM

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Whoa, Morgul Queen... pretty strict... at my school you're not allowed to wear buttons on your blazers (unless they're prefects' pins or academic/athletic/fine arts colours) and you're not allowed to wear colourful socks (only black kneesocks...) but they're not too strict with the jewelry.

Also, Tolkien's actually on the list of books that the school reccommends we read, as are several other fantasy and science fiction authors. We're encouraged to read/write whatever we like, which is nice.

It's sad when schools think we're so impressionable that we're going to be "paganised" (this is a term from a site I ran across which rated fantasy books according to how "dangerous" the ideas and content were to Christian values...) or become satanists because of something we read...

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05-04-2003, 03:24 PM	#11
Altariel Animated Skeleton Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Angband (a small region in northern BC) Posts: 50	O_o Whoa, Morgul Queen... pretty strict... at my school you're not allowed to wear buttons on your blazers (unless they're prefects' pins or academic/athletic/fine arts colours) and you're not allowed to wear colourful socks (only black kneesocks...) but they're not too strict with the jewelry. Also, Tolkien's actually on the list of books that the school reccommends we read, as are several other fantasy and science fiction authors. We're encouraged to read/write whatever we like, which is nice. It's sad when schools think we're so impressionable that we're going to be "paganised" (this is a term from a site I ran across which rated fantasy books according to how "dangerous" the ideas and content were to Christian values...) or become satanists because of something we read... [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] __________________ "Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy."