What exactly are people saying about books they think should be banned from our schools? Here are a few examples of some "classic responses" reagrding banned books.
-Plato's Republic: "This book is un-Christian."
-George Eliot's Silas Marner; "You can't prove what that dirty old man is doing with that child between chapters."
-Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days: "Very unfavorable to Mormons."
-Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter: "A filthy book."
-Shakespeare's Macbeth: "Too violent for children today."
-Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment: "Serves as a poor model for young people."
-Herman Melville's Moby Dick: "Contains homosexuality."
~http://www.ncte.org/positions/statements/righttoreadguideline
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