FOXNews.com: NY approves war-oriented books for third graders

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NY approves war-oriented books for third graders Mar 18th 2013, 16:04 Published March 18, 2013 New York Post Tales of war, bombs and abduction — coming to a third-grade classroom near you. City and state education bureaucrats have given the green light to an English curriculum for elementary schools that includes picture books with startlingly realistic portrayals of war — to be read by 8-year-olds. They include "The Librarian of Basra," which contains drawings of fighter planes dropping bombs on a palm-tree-lined Middle Eastern town. In another illustration, the protagonist looks worried, peering out a window at soldiers manning machine guns on a rooftop. The terrified townsfolk wonder, "Who among us will die?" and "Will our families survive?" Similarly, "Nasreen's Secret School" depicts the abduction of a young man from his home in Afghanistan by soldiers and discusses Taliban rules that forbid women to go out in public alone. Click for more from the New York Post.

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