request to ban Fahrenheit 451 received during Banned Books Week

[bobbieinok]

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Parent criticizes book 'Fahrenheit 451'
By: Kassia Micek, Courier staff
10/01/2006

A Caney Creek High School dad is fired up because the Conroe Independent School District uses the book "Fahrenheit 451" as classroom reading material.

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Alton Verm filed a "Request for Reconsideration of Instructional Materials" Thursday with the district regarding "Fahrenheit 451," written by Ray Bradbury and published in 1953. He wants the district to remove the book from the curriculum.
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He looked through the book and found the following things wrong with the book: discussion of being drunk, smoking cigarettes, violence, "dirty talk," references to the Bible and using God's name in vain. He said the book's material goes against their religions beliefs. The Verms go to Grand Parkway Church in Porter.

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"Fahrenheit 451" is a science fiction piece that poses a warning to society about the preservation and passing on of knowledge as well as asks the question about whether the government should do the thinking for the people, Hines stated in an e-mail to The Courier. Other themes include conformity vs. individuality, freedom of speech and the consequences of losing it, the importance of remembering and understanding history and technology as help to humans and as hindrances to humans, Hines stated in the e-mail.

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Alton Verm's request to ban "Fahrenheit 451" came during the 25th annual Banned Books Week. He and Hines said the request to ban "Fahrenheit 451," a book about book burning, during Banned Books Weeks is a coincidence.

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[SmokingJacket]

It's not a coincidence -- it's IRONY! nt

[BattyDem]

1. Ya gotta love the irony!

:eyes:

[BlueJazz]

2. I would like to tell Mr. Alton Verm this Important Scientific fact >>>

Go Fuck Yourself Pal.

[muryan]

3. Same kind of idiots who tried to get Catcher in the Rye

banned from our senoir AP english class. That was until our entire class stood in on the board meeting with our backs turned in protest until they decided to keep the book. People who try to censor literature and art are a plague to society. Im a humanist but when it comes to people like that i have no sympthany and only regret that they were raised as such morons.

[krkaufman]

4. Unbe-*LIEVE*-able irony ...

... considering that Fahrenheit 451 is primarily about escalating political correctness eventually rendering every book's content as too controversial for public consumption, resulting in the banning and burning of all books.