Stamford American (Stamford, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 14, 2004 Page: 8 of 8
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Hamlin Holy Trinity Catholic
Church to Host Annual Jamaica
The Holy Trinity Catholic
Church will be hosting it annual
Jamaica on Saturday, October
16, 2(8)4, starting at 8:00 AM
with a Menudo Breakfast and
Garage Sale The Sweet Shop
will also be selling lots of good-
ies.
eludes; Robert’s Grilled Ham-
burgers, Isabell's Frito Pies and
Nachos; Melissa’s Kool Aid,
Maria’s Funnel Cakes and
Juana’s Gorditas.
The Regular Bingo will start
at 12:00 PM. The Raffle will
be raffled at 5:30 PM. Need not
The rest of the festivities will
beginning at 9:00 AM till 6:00
PM.
Some of the foods booths in-
be present to win.
Everyone is invited to come
and join us for good eats and
fun.
We are currently evaluating cases involving:
Heart Attack - Stroke - Blood Clots
or Sudden Death
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(Wlliams-Garcia); Give A Boy
A Gun (Strasser); Innocents
Within (Daley); Leslie’s Journal
(Stratton); On The Edge (?);
Perks Of Being A Wallflower
(Chbosky); Plainsong (Haruf);
TCR Oldtimer?
Brisket meal ■
TCR Oldtimers Assoc, will be
having a brisket luncheon on
Friday, November 5, 2004 (3|
the Bunkhouse, tickets can be
purchased at the door or by any
member of the Association. Pro-
ceeds benefit the Bunkhouse
and Roundup Hall
say that it is impossible to know material,” said Mrs. Barton,
what a book contains when it
is ordered.
Mrs. C.J. Barnes, mother of
Lacee Fanning (currently in 7th
grade), said that her daughter
brought home On The Edge last
year when she was in the sixth
grade and showed it to her.
Mrs. Barnes also stated that
another parent complained to
her that her child had brought
home an inappropriate book
called Plainsong. “Both books
had sexual content!” Mrs.
Barnes responded. Her daugh-
ter, Lacee, added, “(just hope
that nobody else checks out a
book like that. It was gross! -It
was very embarrassing to read
the book and then have to show
it to my mom.” Mrs. Barnes
took her complaint to the
school.
After Mrs. Barton was alerted
to the situation, students in the
junior high girls Accelerated
Reading class starting pointing
out other material they had pe-
rused. Between books read by
students, teachers, and Mrs.
Barton, a total of 18 books were
identified. “Altogether, 18
books were sent back to the
publisher and we received credit
to buy books that were appro-
priate for an elementary library.
The kids were proud of their
part in this, as many of them
were offended at the reading
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District attorney
Jones & Shackelford Counties
Mr. Fred R. NcNiel, Super- |
intendent of LAISD, Mid the ]
the books in question were ob- i
viously inappropriate for stu- ,
dents on an elementary campus. ,
“I do not agree with the ACLU <
that children are going to read
these words anyway, and so it
is no big deal,” McNiel said.
“We made a mistake putting
these books into circulation, and
when we heard from our par-
ents, pupils, and teachers, we
pulled them off the shelves and
sent them back to the pub-
lisher.” (Codell); Enchantment (Card);
The following books were Every Time A Rainbow Dies
returned to the publisher:
Beet Fields Memories of a Six-
teenth Summer (Paulsen); Bom
in Sin (Coleman); Both Sides
Now (Pennebaker); Cosmos
Coyote and William the Nice
(Heynen) Dance For Three Portrait in Sepia: A Novel
• (Plummer); Daughter of For- (Allende); Rag And Bone Shop
tune (Allende); Educating Esme: .(Cormier) and Secret Sacra-
Diairy of a Teacher’s First Year ment (Jordan).
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L-AISD Defends Decision to Ban Obscene
Books From Elementary Library
By Linda Hollowell
The small Lueders-Avoca
School District, tucked away in
Eastern Jones County, gener-
ated lots of attention last week
when the American Civil Liber-
ties Union of Texas announced
that they had banned more li-
brary books than any other
school district in Texas.
Lueders-Avoca Elementary
and Junio^ |iigh Schools (com-
bined on one campus in
Lueders), promote reading
through, the Accelerated Read-
ing Program. At the beginning
of the year, students are tested
to determine their reading level.
While the goal of the program
is to have every student read-
ing at least on his/her grade
level, some students have a low
reading level and low interest in
reading. According to Mrs.
Winnie Barton, the librarian aide,
“The books [in question] were
ordered for higher-interest
level, low-level readers. We had
kids who were tired of Dick and
Jane type books, which they
had to read because they were
older and had difficulty read-
ing.” The problem arose be-
cause some of the books which
were ordered contained sexual
content. “It was first brought
to our attention by a fifth grade
girl. The book had sexual con-
tent - in a fourth-grade level
book!” Mrs. Barton went on to
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Davidson, Brian. Stamford American (Stamford, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 14, 2004, newspaper, October 14, 2004; Stamford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1186970/m1/8/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Stamford Carnegie Library.