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Since we have so many readers on this board
A discussion. this is from my hometown newspaper, two counties over from where I grew up.
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Re: Since we have so many readers on this board
Wow. That's kind of appalling that the school did that. I just think it is so important not to let history like that die and I completely disagree with the school "editing" her diaries. I'd have to read what they were talking about before I could say whether or not I'd be comfortable with my 13yo reading about it at school. The better option might be to move the discussion up a couple years and have the students study it when they were in high school. But I think the school is way out of line in editing the diaries.
Originally her father edited it, and the full version wasn't releaed until 1995, the 50th anniversary of her death. How would ya'll feel about your daughter or potential daughter reading about puberty in an unedited fashion. I am off to see if I can find some of the edited part, to put in further context.
Honestly, by the time I was 13, my mom and I had already had "the talk" so I knew all about puberty. Again, I'd have to read exactly what was so upsetting before saying if I'd be comfortable with my kids reading about it. I do also think that it would be important to have a really good teacher teaching the lesson.
I can remember my 8th grade science teacher teaching us about (for lack of a better term) how babies are made in class and before she even started, she made it very clear that the first person to giggle or laugh was getting kicked out of class. That what she was teaching us was facts and part of our curriculum. She did a great job of relaying the information to us in a professional and appropriate manner.
This infuriates me. I hate censorship of any kind. This girl lived in an attic for 2 years as a teenager and died in a concentration camp. Let her have her diary unedited and let our students read it the way it is meant to be read.
Like Christen said I'm sure they are reading a lot more crap out there than this. Take Twilight for example...I mean parents let their children read that but not this because she talks about going through puberty?!