I cannot believe this...

[doddiemoemoe]

Finally my youngest an read GOF and OOP actually she could read it 
for quite some time but was consumed with other works...

and the educators explatation as to why they cannot read it for or 
obtain any credit for it was, "because of the moveis"...NOW, We all 
know that most of both said books are not in any movie...so why 
remove them from the list?!?!?  MY kid can still read the entire 
bond series, Narnia series, Pullman series, Sherlock Holmses series 
etc.....

Now normally I wouldn't care...but definitely why keep all the books 
aside from those two? Is it becase they think the kids would cheat 
on their tests? Come on...we know movies four and five contain the 
least of the content of the previous books..(are you kidding 
me...Neville and Dobby are suddenly interchangeable?)

I'm sorry but given the text/vs. the movies...why take those two 
books off the list and let all other's remain???

I dunno, I think it's more about educators reading the same tired 
thing ...I could understand educator's limiting one HP book per year 
per student (as long as writings include three to five aspects not 
in the movies...none to hard for GOF and OOP....(the only two books 
they eliminated...OMG--could it be that the teachers are watching 
the movies and NOT reading the books--probably)..because we know 
it's not because of a movie...especially when they recommended "A 
Tree Grows in Brooklyn" and a movie has been made and King's Dream 
Catcher, movie again, and Jaws, Cujo,Carrie, movies again, and 
theres deeper, "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolfe", Charly, Christmas 
Carole/Scrooged, Hunchback of Notre Dame etc..etc. etc.....at the 
least have the kids submit a ballot....and have a drawing for the 
entire school to pick one HP book...I'm just upset that my kids 
teacher was up there preaching to us about humnanities and how we 
should let our honors lit kids read what they want but all of a 
sudden remove a set of books...just because of a "movie" which we 
all know that movie 3, 4 and 5 and less, and less and, less of the 
books w/in them...

Doddie