Schools Banning Books

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Britney Pham Mr. Stuart Maclean English 10.3 22 February 2024 Schools should not ban books from their libraries. The debate over whether schools should ban books is not a new issue. Many articles, studies, and surveys have taken this issue as their subject. From my point of view, schools should not ban books for the following three reasons: some issues are brutal but necessary in children's development, book censorship takes away personal choices from the majority in the community, and banning books is a discriminatory action. As previously indicated, book bans have the potential to restrict access to crucial instructional materials, depriving students of knowledge on social issues, significant historical events, and other subjects that can be deemed delicate or contentious. Banning books is like keeping the truth under wraps. Several publications about the Holocaust, for …show more content…

If children do not have access to this information, people will make the same mistakes again. If children do not have access to this information, the world will have a second genocide. This information is necessary for children to be aware of the inhumane actions that have taken place in a part of the world. From there, children, who decide the future, will make the right choice to avoid making the mistakes of their predecessors. In addition, Maoria Kirker, an expert at George Manson University, said: "Banning books also has the potential to create significant gaps in knowledge for young learners" (5). Banning books greatly limits students' access to knowledge. This is not beneficial for students' cognitive development. Not only does it limit education, but book bans also limit access to certain groups of readers who feel interested in these works. Erika Long, a librarian in Metro Nashville Public Schools, passionately expressed her disapproval of book bans in an interview with Brenda

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