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TexasTowelie

(116,508 posts)
Fri Jun 23, 2017, 02:30 PM Jun 2017

Conservative summer reading list at Alabama high school stirs attention

Teacher gives students books by Ann Coulter and Mark Levin


Nothing spices up a good list of school-assigned summer reads like a dose of political controversy.

A high school teacher in Spanish Fort, Alabama, assigned students a summer report on one book from a list of options. More than 30 books were listed, and most have a strong conservative focus.

Among the titles are "Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder: Savage Solutions," "Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto" and "Guilty: Liberal 'Victims' and their Assault on America."

Authors include prominent conservative personalities like Michael Savage, Mark Levin and Ann Coulter.

Read more: http://www.toledoblade.com/State/2017/06/23/Conservative-summer-reading-list-at-Alabama-high-school-stirs-attention.html

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Conservative summer reading list at Alabama high school stirs attention (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jun 2017 OP
Dontcha know? Those were the authors of the Bible... Moostache Jun 2017 #1
Updated: Controversial reading list pulled from Alabama classroom after complaints mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2017 #2

Moostache

(10,135 posts)
1. Dontcha know? Those were the authors of the Bible...
Fri Jun 23, 2017, 02:32 PM
Jun 2017

The gospel according to Ann?
Really white hot these days...

Levin is one of the tribes Israel, which is why we are so against Arabs in the Holy lands...

This is me today:

mahatmakanejeeves

(60,684 posts)
2. Updated: Controversial reading list pulled from Alabama classroom after complaints
Fri Jun 23, 2017, 02:39 PM
Jun 2017
Controversial reading list featuring Ann Coulter, Michael Savage pulled from Alabama classroom after complaints

Updated on June 23, 2017 at 2:29 PM Posted on June 23, 2017 at 2:06 PM

BY LEADA GORE lgore@al.com

Some of the authors whose works were on a reading list pulled from an Alabama classroom are firing back. ... The author's comments come after copies of a reading list for Spanish Fort High School's advanced placement government and economics class began circulating on social media earlier this week.

The list, created by teacher Gene Ponder, directed students to choose one book as a summer reading assignment. The entries included such works as "Liberalism is a Mental Disorder: Savage Solutions," by Michael Savage; '"End the Fed," by Ron Paul; "Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and their Assault on America," by Ann Coulter; "Abortion and the Conscience of a Nation," by former President Ronald Reagan; and "48 Liberal Lies About American History (That You Probably Learned in School)," by Larry Schweikart.

The list was posted on social media, drawing outrage from some parents. Elizabeth Denham, whose son was in the AP class, wrote on her blog she contacted Ponder and then the school to question the assignment.
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School officials said Ponder, a 2010 Republican candidate for Alabama's Lieutenant Governor's office, would be contacting students and parents to let them know there will be no summer reading assignment for his class.


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