Adolescent Literacy Chapters 5 and 6

In regards to this assigned reading, I have to say that I liked the analogy of the "Tom Sawyer" reference. With talk and dialougue in the classroom, I was struck with how the author differentiated between dialougue and debate. I could see how some students could feel excluded by the win/lose aspect of debate. Although I feel that debate has its place in many classrooms, I can see that the teacher would have to establish clear expectations between what is debate and dialougue or discussion.
In chapter 6, I would like to respond to the example of "censorship or not." I felt that the first example with the mother not wanting only her child not to read the book is not censorship. Although I disagree with the mother (no matter what the circumstance), I feel that she has the right to monitor her child's reading and she is not wishing to infringe on the other student's educational experience. I feel that the other example is definitely censorship and it brings to mind the incident with "Beloved" at Eastern High School last year. I felt that all of this teacher's classes were shortchanged from a future canonical work because one parent misinterpreted one paragraph from a three-hundred page book.