It was Islamic, but reasonably secular for a very long time. Tribal customs governed way more than Sharia. Even sadder is that many of the people who catalyzed the fundamentalists weren't even Afghans but flocked there to fight Russians (at the behest of the CIA).
That's what I'm wondering too. How is it allowed to go all the way to removing the book? It just seems like somebody should just be able to say no, and be done with it. I don't understand why it goes all the way from the complaint to the actual removal of the supposedly offensive book. Are there any stop gaps in the process? Wouldn't it have to go through some review board or something? I really want to know.
I have read the Request for Reconsideration submitted by Vicki Baggett, dated 4-27-23, and I have read the Florida statutes and legislative materials cited to therein, and I think Baggett's complaint is seriously deficient on both factual and legal grounds.
Just to be clear, I was being sarcastic.
It’s not really panache. Hugo Boss designed and produced the Waffen-SS and Wermacht uniforms for the Third Reich.
Crom will hit him in the head with a crushed beer can.
That's what I meant!
I had heard Boss designed the Allgemeine-SS uniforms.
Who knows, in Florida?
Well, I have been teaching for 29 years...
Right?!
I've been in education for about six years (career change). I have so much admiration for you for sticking with it for 29 years.
It is starting to get old, I admit.
Marxist stereotypes of white conservatism?
I missed those in Das Kapital.
The Bible would fall in there, too.
Afghanistan was a pretty nice place, I hear, before The Ruskies interfered to help the fundies take over.
It was Islamic, but reasonably secular for a very long time. Tribal customs governed way more than Sharia. Even sadder is that many of the people who catalyzed the fundamentalists weren't even Afghans but flocked there to fight Russians (at the behest of the CIA).
I bet she's real popular in the teachers lounge
That's what I'm wondering too. How is it allowed to go all the way to removing the book? It just seems like somebody should just be able to say no, and be done with it. I don't understand why it goes all the way from the complaint to the actual removal of the supposedly offensive book. Are there any stop gaps in the process? Wouldn't it have to go through some review board or something? I really want to know.
I have read the Request for Reconsideration submitted by Vicki Baggett, dated 4-27-23, and I have read the Florida statutes and legislative materials cited to therein, and I think Baggett's complaint is seriously deficient on both factual and legal grounds.