[kcmastrpc]

The author is being controversial for controversy sake, the cynic in me points to "buy my banned book", but we all know how much money authors make off commission, however, this might just elevate her profile enough to collect paychecks for book signings and other appearances.

I'm awfully tired of this charade. Parents have a right to petition their local school boards with regard to what the school administers provision funds toward. In reality, this story is a cover for the more questionable books the school boards have been opting out of in their institutions because the author knows if those were covered most parents would be outright disgusted and possibly mad enough to pick up a pitchfork.

This isn't banning or censorship, its parents having a say what their kids are exposed to. If you don't like that, go petition your school board or buy the book yourself and read it to your child before bed.

[matthewmacleod]

I don't think multi-award-winning, multi-millionaire, world-famous novelist Margaret Atwood is in a position where she could possibly give a flying fuck about elevating her profile.

You can argue reasonably that communities, schools, and parents' groups have some level of responsibility for making decisions about the content of school libraries. But schools also have a responsibility to ensure that this doesn't stray into the effect of a government body (the school) restricting access to speech on the basis of its content (there was a whole Supreme Court case about exactly this).

And beside all of that it's totally legitimate to complain about stupid decisions that you think will hurt students.