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CENSORSHIP

2002-06-14

It’s very disturbing that in the 21^st century in a democratic society we

still need or should I say we still have censorship. What is it that some

people like to dictate what we should read, watch or listen?

Why some people and the Government don’t understand that every

person has full knowledge of own conscious and responsibility of own

action and they are aware of it.

Now we acknowledged that Queensland Education has been recommended

for senior students book “Hooky the Cripple” written by Mark Read,

petty convicted killer. People are very concerned, particularly parents

of the students who can be exposed to that book and they start lobbying

for exclusion that book from school. Their anger is understandable

but should be addressed differently. Pushing for ban simply it’s one

more example of censorship, which won’t solve this problem. People

concerned about it should look for answers in an Education Department,

because they gave permission for filling school libraries bookshelves

with that book and that should never happened in the first place.

What kind of people are working for education who from thousands

of book published every year, have decided that peculiar book is so good

and innovative, that they recommended it for school students? All parents

should focus their disapproval on Education Minister and ask her

what kind of education, training and experience her staff has for

suggesting such crap like that book. Basically we don’t need to be

highly educated for introducing to young people any kind of awful,

rotten and appalling rubbish like writing from Mark Read. Perhaps

in that case we would like to talk about restriction against that book.

But maybe we have to start making restriction for irresponsible people

working in the Education Department with as such poor attitude.

Everyone knows well that is a disgraceful situation and that has

nothing to do with freedom of speech or censorship. This is a matter

of honesty, responsibility, integrity, liability, accountability and

duty of our education system in relation to the children. That’s why

parents of school children hope that Minister for Education understand

that and in the future she won’t make the same mistake again.

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