Great Gods. The whole *POINT* of including the book in a high school program is that very conversation. It's supposed to make students uncomfortable, it's supposed to stimulate debate over historical merit versus modern conventions, over what was acceptable or at least accepted in the past and why it no longer is. If we take the teeth out of this book, sure, it's still a fine story, but it's promoting censorship and teaching kids that it's ok to modify the ideas of others if they make us uncomfortable.

Are we going to take out the "thought crime" sections of 1984 so that we don't get uncomfortable that it's sounding much too similar to what's going on now?