[Mustang1]

Dayseed Dayseed:

The problem is the simple parent has employed simple logic. Sanitizing the world for her child won't make the kid any better in the long run; not if he/she is sheltered from every contentious idea that may confront them. There were/are racist people in the world, but the book holds Atticus Finch up as a concientious man well ahead of his time, a hero and a symbol. Kids should be exposed to the intolerance and a hell of a model of how to deal with it.

Boo Radley eventually kicks the hell out of the racist anyway. (SPOILER ALERT!)

Exactly and maybe someone should explain to the child and his/her parent than the "N" word in this novel is a contemporary TERM and historically valid! And it's TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD FOR PETE'S SAKE!! It's one of the best American pieces of literature ever written and it won the Pulitzer! Why bend to some unenlightened goof-off parent or their kid?!? At what point do we let the lowest common denominator decide literary curriculum?

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Ridiculous. Great book, great moral and nice little object lesson all rolled into one well written book.

[Annihilator]

Can parents just raise their kids instead of complaining about how everytbody around them are teaching their kids bad things?

[herbie]

Proper parenting would be to tell your kid he's a fucking mutant long before he's old enough to read.
Most kids have arms Billy. If they tease you, use your tentacles to rip a few chunks of flesh from their faces. That's why God gave you razor tipped suckers on them.