A Tough Day On The Schoolyard

I recently discovered Crimes Against Commerce won't be available in your child's elementary school reading program or available to most kindergarten students.

I was shocked.

Understand I spent a lot of years in newspapers and magazines, where I worked my way up from beat reporter to publisher. I'm big on freedom of speech, and that message— America's First Amendment— shines through every page of this novel.

I'd like you to read it yourself and see if the National Education Association's guidelines regarding reading material are, in fact, too Victorian for our children. I think they are, and our kids are being deprived of a lot of fine literature; not only my work, but that of great authors you'd be amazed to learn about.

After you've read the work yourself, if you agree it should be in your local library take it into the next school board meeting.

What, you don't attend school board meetings? Damn, the next thing you know you'll have principals like me running your schools...

--Ed