should schools ban Harry Potter?
By kola_nani
@kola_nani (69)
India
February 23, 2007 9:27am CST
A Georgia parent is demanding that her local school system ban the harry potter books because she believes that they indoctrinate kids into witchcraft.how should schools choose which books to include in their libraries? should parents be included in the decision-making process? Tell us what you think?
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@chaygylmommy (2470)
• United States
23 Feb 07
I think people are WAY too touchy about things like this! These are BOOKS..they are in the FICTION section of the library. The Harry Potter books do not go into how to do spells and teach about white OR black magic. It's just a story about a magical little boy and his friends and life. This parent has probably never even read the book or seen one of the movies...that is what makes me madder than anything is when people judge something without even seeing it. I remember when the Life Action Scooby Doo movie came out and parents were mad because the gang got possessed by ghosts! Didn't these people ever watch the cartoon???!!! Amazing that something like this will get poeple up in arms.
@silverlou (372)
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23 Feb 07
Parents should be allowed to be involved with the decision process, providing their own personal beliefs do not stunt a childs development within the modern world. As I'm from the UK, Harry Potter to me is just a story with no intentions behind it, but then I'm not part of any religion which does not prescribe to the possibility of supernatural events.
