Here's a tongue-firmly-in-cheek suggestion:
On the exact same day, let's say the Friday before the tyranosaurius rex birthday (Aug. 13)have at least one Cuban parent visit each of the libraries where they have the offending book, brining a black Sharpie pen, and use it to "edit" the book so that it reflects reality more accurately.
Julio

Incredible!
Like during the whole thing with Elian - Fidel Castro was dictating to the Clinton adminstration and the US did Castro's bidding to the last detail. It was so voodoo like. Do you know what I mean?

There is a sick power to Castro that he can move people - people that are not even Cuban to do things for him.

Truefully - I don't see what people see in him - make him out to be the greatest - to me he is just a crazy man.

I believe we should start a movement - take it as tongue in cheek or not - and somebody with talent (not I) will have to write the illustrated book - to be presented to the board with intransigent insistence it be placed on school library shelves...titled "Reisen durch Unser Reich." Fair and balanced, no? With illustrations of cute 'lil blonde, blue-eyed imps in their hitlerjugend garb happily gathered around campfires learning to dissasemble and clean K-98 rifles.

I hate to be negative but I never doubted this outcome. The School Board is a corrupt organization. They don't educate our children, they take our tax dollars and waste it on ludicrous boondoggles and now, to add insult to injury, they enable a murderer to further his message. That is why my son goes to private school. He will NEVER set foot in one a classroom run by these motherfuckers.

I agree with Julio, let's make our own disclaimers to slap onto these damn books.

To ban this book, even though it is fiction, makes us no better than the prick 90 miles south of Key West. Rather, it is up to us parents to teach our children well (as CSNY once sang). I have no beef with the public schools of Miami Dade County. I'm a product of those schools. But the problem herein is where folks are under the misconception that it is solely the school's obligation to teach our children. Au contraire mon freres . . . it is up to the parents. It is up to the parents to have discussions with their children over what they are taught.

In fact, while not taught anymore, when I was in public school in Miami in the early 1980's, we were required to learn communism v. capitalism. It's been discontinued since there is a misconception that the cold war is over. The cold war between the US and the USSR may be over somewhat, but the battle between capitalism and communism still exists even though communism exists under different monicers today (i.e. Bolivarian Revolution perhaps?) Hence the reason why all of us cringe sometimes at the idiocy of the youth today who seem to cling on to such anachronisms as che and marxism (although today it is better known as liberalism and progressive thought). They simply lack education on the subject. This coupled with the greater problem that people do not want to think for themselves but rather want and expect the government or the schools or politicians or demagaugoes to do it for them makes it even more important for us to get involved with our children's education and their future. If we don't do it, no one will.

Mike,

If you read my editorial at Edspresso, you'll see that I do not call for the banning of the book, just its proper placement within the proper section of the libraries. It is by no means a "reference" book based on fact.