The Importance Of Book Banning In Schools

When our country was founded in 1776, it was founded on the liberty of expressing and having your voice be heard which gave us the first amendment. Part of the first amendment is freedom of speech which lets many authors express themselves through words and informing readers about real world issues that nowadays people just ignore, and information that might be essential to someone on the days come forth .By challenging, banning or censoring a authors book you're basically restraining them from using their first amendment. When censoring a book it’s censoring a part of a book that either one or more have found offensive and with banning its the whole book. Banning or challenging a book is absurd , no one has the right to decide for everyone

we're all humans who can make decisions for ourselves, we don't need anyone deciding what part of a book we can't read or in general the whole book.

Most book bannings happen in elementary's since a parent finds their child reading a book that they don't agree with and first challenge the book if successful the book is banned from the school's library which restricts other students from reading the book.Many authors have spoked up about the issue with banning, in the article Censorship Cannot Be Allowed in

Americ. The author states their point in book banning by writing “But you do not have the right to decide "appropriateness" for everyone” ( “Censorship cannot be”), the author emphasizes that no one has the right to agree for everyone when it comes to books and if you dont like it just put it back down. When children pick up a book and take it home they might have just choosen it since the cover was pretty or they just didnt care and chose a random book , of course parents arent just gonna sit there and read the book from start to finish and tell them if they approve it , at most they might just skim through it. Parents arent always going to be breathing down their childrens neck meaning they wont know what theyre reading and if a child reads a excplicit book at a young age of course theyre gonna talk about it with other kids and no one want their child saying explicit things at a young age . A mother shared her opinion about book banning and she agreed that book banning isnt good but its also something important we need since there should be boundaries when it comes to literature “ And I'm one who dearly values common sense as well as decency and taste when it comes to drawing reasonable lines for our children's sake” (School Libraries Should ) , there should be a “line” that we need in literature yes the first admendment does protect our speech but that doesnt mean that we can just start writing explicit literature and believe that were not going to be harm , while it might not affect the life of the author it will to someone elses life.

A famous piece of literature “Faranheit 451” was banned in some parts of the U.S for bulgar language and the burning of the most well knows religious book : the bible . Even the author of the book , Ray Bradbury , spoke up about literature being either banned or challenged during national banned book week , in a article he said “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."”(Banned Books Week) , Bradbury doent say it directly

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