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Hello and welcome to my blog. I am very excited about what I have learn thus far about blooging. I have never created a blog before, and as you professional bloggers can see I still have a lot to learn. Once I learn more about blogging and get familiarized with different blogging features, I would like to start using it with my students. The objectives of this blog is to learn more about using blogs, and to get ideas on how I can used it in my classroom. If you have used Blogging with your students before and have and Idea of how I can use this with my 3rd graders next school year please don't hesitate to post.

Thursday, June 7, 2007

Vamos A Cuba

On a recent article read on education week, I read about how Miami Dade County Public School District asked the 11th USA circuit Court of appeals permission to remove the book “Vamos a Cuba” or “A Visit to Cuba” from school libraries. I don't know how any one feel about this topic, but quite frankly I am fed up. I think that School District is wasting tax payer money by expanding this matter. I think that the discussion of removing the books has been expanded for over a year or two. I feel that if we allow the ban of a book just because it is not "truthful" to what is happening in a country, then many geography books will be eliminated from our school shelves. I think that school district should leave the decision to parents, whether they want their kids to read certain books. It is my opinion that they should just stop wasting money appealing this matter. We need raises and it's not happening, maybe they should do their job right the first time and evaluate books more carefully before they hit our bookshelves and stop throwing away tax payer money from now on. What do you think?

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