I'm honestly shocked at the amount of negative feedback. Wait, no, I take that back; since the feedback is coming from mostly teachers and concerned mums, the response is none too shocking. What is shocking is the fact that this series is on a banned book list. C'mon, people. You know damn well that telling someone --especially a kid-- that they shouldn't do something will just want them to do it even more.

I've read every book in this series at least twice and I have yet to be offended at all, let alone of the point of thinking "I can't believe they did/said that!" and I was raised in a conservative, strict-parenting environment. This is a children's series; situations and actions are supposed to be over the top and immature. If it wasn't, the target audience wouldn't even look at it.

I think one of the reasons why I never considered any of trouble George and Harold started was setting a bad example was because the adults they dealt with were just as horrible, if not worse, to them. Even if our two delinquents were quiet and well-behaved, they would still be treated as badly; the background students prove that. Read any of these books over again and you'll notice that the "good" kids (most of which don't even get names) suffer just as much. To me, George and Harold represent the statement "You'll be damned if you do and damned if you don't" perfectly. Either way they get hell; why not deserve it since you're going to get it anyways?