It's official. The Halton Catholic School board has pulled "The Golden Compass" from its shelves. Apparently it's "not in line with our governing values", says the board. Perhaps they decided that there's enough fantasy and immorality in the Bible that it wouldn't be in the children's best interest to read anymore.
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The real problem is, of course, that the Catholic schools are funded by taxpayers and I hate the notion that a government bureaucracy, rather than the parents, is deciding what's best for our children.
Oh well, like everyone else,kids get their information from the internet anyway, so the big fuss only highlights their backwardness and adds another entry to the ever-increasing list to eliminate this archaic bureaucracy. As fellow heretic blogger Ron Brown notes, "Your spineless insecurity and Big Brotherish ways are a continuing source of inspiration" Amen.
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