Banning Books In Schools

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Reading literature in schools is unavoidable, whether it be in kindergarten or twelfth grade. Most children will have a book they read in class or an assigned book they must do a report over. Parents may discover their child bringing a book home from a school library they dislike because of the content. When parents feel like a book is not suitable for a classroom or the library, they may challenge it. Challenging a book is an attempt to remove the materials based on objections to the material within. If the books challenge is successful, the book will be banned. The official act of banning a book is its removal from a library or course material (“Banned & Challenged Books”). Board of Education, Island Trees School District v. Pico created the requirement that school libraries must bring books up to a board before a …show more content…

A few of these are: The Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Jungle, and 1984 (“Banned & Challenged Classics”). Many of these books teach about a time that had some risqué happenings that people did not speak about; often these are called taboos. However, these are the books that are discussed in school in depth about what makes the book so prominent in society today. When a person reads To Kill a Mockingbird, they learn about racism in the 1960’s; the book was written in that time period to show how racism was and how common it was to blame an African-American for problems that happened in a society. Being informed about atrocious acts that are represented in classic literature helps people avoid them today. Classic literature is an important piece in schools and in libraries, they have sprouted their ideas to the world that no one was brave enough to write about at that time. No matter what age a person is they should be able to read a classic, whether that be used to be transported into an earlier time or to get some insight on issues that were and are seen as

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