>And maybe Laurie Piper can play her in the movie

by Roger Sutton
Dec 14, 2005 | Filed in Articles & Opinion
>I was entertained by this anecdote from Faux News guy John Gibson's new book The War on Christmas (cited in"The So-Called War on Christmas" by Adam Cohen, a NYT "Select" article, so I can't link to it, sorry):

Mr. Gibson takes up the cause of Sherrie Versher, the mother of a 10 1/2-year-old public school student in Plano, Texas. For her daughter Stephanie's birthday, Ms. Versher brought 24 brownies to school, to which she wanted to attach pencils that contained the message: "Jesus Loves Me This I Know Because the Bible Tells Me So." When the principal asked her not to distribute the pencils, she walked through the school building saying, "Satan is in the building."

Boy, do I feel for Stephanie, but this incident is just waiting for Richard Peck or Chris Crutcher to get busy.
Roger Sutton
Roger Sutton

Editor Emeritus Roger Sutton was editor in chief of The Horn Book, Inc., from 1996-2021. He was previously editor of The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books and a children's and young adult librarian. He received his MA in library science from the University of Chicago in 1982 and a BA from Pitzer College in 1978.

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Posted : Mar 23, 2008 03:07

jd

>I just don't know how to respond to people like this. When I worked at Vroman's, a lady came in around Christmas time and said, "What happened to Christmas? All these damn Jews and Arabs everywhere!" I'm paraphrasing slightly because in my shock, I couldn't recall her words verbatim, but that was, indeed, the gist of it. We all just stood there staring at her.

Posted : Dec 15, 2005 06:50

rindambyers

>My response is best said in my last blog, Mr. Daniels Remembered-With Love" which is too long to summarize here, except to say that I always feel that something has gotten out of whack when the focus in our public schools becomes preaching anything to kids not truly teaching them teaching...and good teaching to me is a kind of infection... and always dangerous to the status quo...

Rinda M. Byers

http://www.xanga.com/rindwriter

Posted : Dec 15, 2005 02:31

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