13 REASONS WHY – SHOULD SCHOOLS BAN IT? OR MAKE IT MANDATORY? (MF GALAXY 122)
CONTROVERSIAL HIT NETFLIX SERIES EXPLORES BULLYING, STALKING, SLUT-SHAMING, SEXUAL ASSAULT + TEEN SUICIDE, NOW FACING BACKLASH FROM ELITE MEDIA + PEARL-CLUTCHING ADULTS EVERYWHERE Today on the show we’re talking about 13 Reasons Why, the Netflix series based on the Jay Asher novel. My guests are librarian Ashley Cain and policy manager Jinting Zhao, both of whom attended the high school where I taught for most of my teaching career, and where Cain was one of my English students. I asked them to come onto MF GALAXY because they each posted insightful and powerful remarks following a Facebook thread I started discussing the series and asking about its accuracy. In Edmonton, a school principal banned out-of-class discussion of the series. In the following show you’ll hear me incorrectly say to Jinting Zhao that the school was a junior high, but Ashley Cain correctly noted that it was an elementary school. The school emailed to parents to state its ban, but failed to...