| Controversy over Book Ban Rattles Miami
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| | are required to be members of). Parents
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| Schools
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| | of Cuban American children in Miami
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| Miami Dade Public schools have been
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| | schools say the book gives young children
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| rocked by allegations of throwing aside
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| | the impression that the lives of Cuban
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| civil liberties in favor of pleasing
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| | children is the same as the lives of
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| parts of the local populace. First came
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| | American children. They argue that young
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| the unnecessary controversy over an
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| | impressionable minds are not able to
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| innocuous children's book that portrayed
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| | filter party mouthpiece rhetoric from
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| life in Cuba from a child's perspective.
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| | fact and risk being brainwashed by books
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| The book "A Visit to Cuba" was not a
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| | like these that do not portray the true
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| prescribed textbook for young children in
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| | picture of life under Castro for students
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| Miami schools, rather it was part of the
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| | in Miami schools.
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| school library. A young Cuban American
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| | The argument seems a little too
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| girl bought the book home and showed it
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| | simplistic. Civil liberties activists
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| to her father; a Cuban dissident and
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| | and critics of the book ban agree that it
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| political prisoner who was upset at the
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| | would be hypocritical for a country that
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| soft picture the book portrayed of life
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| | claims to uphold democratic ideals the
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| under Castro. He immediately notified
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| | way ours does, to allow react with a
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| the Miami Dade public schools'
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| | knee-jerk response to the contents of a
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| authorities who proceed to place the book
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| | book. What, they ask, would be the
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| under a ban. Miami's strong Cuban
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| | difference between Castro's Cuba and the
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| American population supported the ban on
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| | land of the free if the simple decision
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| the book in Miami schools' arguing that
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| | of whether or not to read a book is taken
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| reading the book could create the wrong
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| | away from its citizens? While parents of
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| impression in young children's minds
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| | Cuban American children in Miami Dade
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| about the reality of life in Cuba. The
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| | Public schools, many of them having
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| American Civil Liberties jumped into the
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| | arrived at this country after extended
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| fray and filed a lawsuit against the ban
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| | stays in Cuban prisons, do have a point
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| calling it unconstitutional.
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| | in being concerned about the impression
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| Book Ban - A Knee-Jerk Reaction by Miami
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| | that their children and others will
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| Schools?
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| | receive through these books-they don't
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| A few weeks later another book found
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| | need to be. In a situation like this
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| itself at the center of a storm in Miami
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| | keeping the lines of communication
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| Dade Public schools. This time it was
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| | between parents and children open can go
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| Cuban Kids, a children's book that
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| | a long way to help children separate the
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| portrayed a couple of Cuban children on
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| | grain from the chaff and come away with a
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| the cover dressed in what seem to be
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| | true picture of the ground reality in the
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| Scout uniforms- but are reportedly
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| | Communist nation. Banning a book, any
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| uniforms of the young revolutionaries, (
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| | book is not the solution.
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| a group that all school children in Cuba
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