Comments on: Sex, Drugs, and Library Fines

By: Cindy

Cindy — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:41:52 +0000

This falls under the category of “now I have heard everything!” I would imagine that Ms. Harden has enjoyed her 15 min. of fame…

By: Crystal

Crystal — Sat, 29 May 2010 15:30:51 +0000

Ok parents, sex is all around us from home to school and everywhere in between no matter how hard you oppose it we will learn many school even require sex education classes which makes the students more inquizitive. To me it’s a question of parenting and trust. If you talk to your children about abstinence you have to trust they will be abstinent no matter what goes on around them. So the true question is are you as a parent doing your job?
Sincerly,
the teenager

By: Candadai Tirumalai

Candadai Tirumalai — Wed, 26 May 2010 13:36:39 +0000

The days when librarians were considered
stuffy and censorious are long past, though perhaps not in every part of the country. Now they are likely to be more liberal than many parents.
An older problem is this. Teenagers like to push back against parental boundaries, and the sensitive parent prefers persuasion to prohibition.
The mother in this article objects not to the book being in the library but to its being shelved in the section for readers as young as her daughter. She does have a point, which she carried far.