Effort to ban Looking for Alaska in Depew, New York schools (2008)
story · status: followed over 4 videos (2008) · last event: update (2008-04-21)
Parts: John asks Nerdfighters near Depew to attend the school board meeting on Looking for Alaska (2008) · John asks viewers to write letters defending the Depew teachers who want to teach Looking for Alaska (2008) · John asks Nerdfighters near Depew to attend the March 4 meeting on Looking for Alaska (2008)
About: Looking for Alaska (novel), Depew, New York, Depew High School
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-01-30 | told | John tells how Depew High School planned to teach Looking for Alaska with a permission slip, and how a few objectors called it pornographic and want it removed for everyone. | I Am Not A Pornographer 00:00:35 |
| 2008-02-08 | update | John reports the five speakers at the Depew board meeting all opposed Looking for Alaska, several without reading it; another meeting is set for March 4th. | QUESTION TUESDAYS (On Friday) 00:00:36 |
| 2008-02-26 | update | A meeting on Tuesday, March 4th will discuss whether to keep Looking for Alaska in the Depew High School curriculum. | Best Wishes! 00:01:43 |
| 2008-04-21 | update | John reports the Depew, New York school board voted unanimously to keep Looking for Alaska in the curriculum despite a ban effort. | Belated Book-tacular Questions 00:01:52 |
What is said about it
7 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2008-01-30 · I Am Not A Pornographer — John learns his first novel, Looking for Alaska, published almost three years ago, is to be taught to 11th-grade English students at Depew High School near Buffalo. — 00:00:14
- 2008-01-30 · I Am Not A Pornographer — John says the school wrote to parents with a permission slip: children of parents who agree read the book, others read a different book. — 00:00:35
- 2008-01-30 · I Am Not A Pornographer — John says many Depew teachers, administrators and school board members are standing up for the book and for teachers' and parents' rights. — 00:03:22
- 2008-02-08 · QUESTION TUESDAYS (On Friday) — John reports many people attended Tuesday's (5 February 2008) Depew school board meeting on his book, which he appreciates, but procedure let none of them speak. — 00:00:00
- 2008-02-08 · QUESTION TUESDAYS (On Friday) — John quotes one objector's claim that he needn't read the book to judge it, and says the analogy shows why good English literature education is needed. — 00:00:36
- 2008-02-08 · QUESTION TUESDAYS (On Friday) — announcement: John says there is another Depew board meeting on March 4th, with more information to come. — 00:00:36
- 2008-02-26 · Best Wishes! — ask: John asks Nerdfighters in or near Depew, New York to attend the Tuesday, March 4th meeting on whether to keep Looking for Alaska in the Depew High School curriculum. — 00:01:43