{"id":3974,"date":"2003-03-05T08:03:31","date_gmt":"2003-03-05T13:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3974"},"modified":"2003-03-05T08:03:31","modified_gmt":"2003-03-05T13:03:31","slug":"least_common_de","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/05\/least_common_de.html","title":{"rendered":"Least Common Denominator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A West Yorkshire nursery school has <a title=\"BBC NEWS | UK | England | School bans pigs stories\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/england\/2818809.stm\">banned books with pigs in them<\/a> from the classroom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block\">Sixty per cent of the school&#8217;s pupils are of Pakistani or Indian origin and 99% of these pupils are Muslims. <br \/>\nMrs Harris said in a statement: &#8220;Recently I have been aware of an occasion where young Muslim children in class were read stories about pigs. <br \/>\n&#8220;We try to be sensitive to the fact that for Muslims talk of pigs is offensive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is not censorship, Mrs Harris hastens to add:  the books are still (at the moment) in the school library.<\/p>\n<p>Next up:  banning books with cows in them from classes with Hindi children, banning books with men in them from classes with feminist children, banning books with cars in them from classes with environmentalist children, and banning books with words in them from classes with children from cultures with strong oral storytelling traditions.<\/p>\n<p>Wilbur wept.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A West Yorkshire nursery school has banned books with pigs in them from the classroom. 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