To Ban Books or Not?

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Every year books are ban from being read in public schools and libraries. Why would schools ban books that are important to literature? Don’t books help students increase their wide realm of knowledge in all around areas of literature? Public schools are banning books due to their inappropriate actions, words being used, and them being challenging for most students to read. Instead of reading these kinds of books they choose to pick safer and non-challenging books for their students. Although schools and parents don’t see eye to eye, some parents believe that the books that are banned should be read in school. These parents believe that books should not be banned because it can teach their children life lessons, historical events, and well known authors. The Scarlet Letter and The Great Gatsby are two great examples of books that have been banned from public schools. Some of the greatest books of all time such as, The Great Gatsby and, The Scarlet Letter have been banned by school districts for multiple reasons such as sex and language.
First off, books are banned every year due to inappropriate behaviors that parents don’t want their children to read. “Books usually are challenged with the best intentions—to protect others, frequently children, from difficult ideas and information” (About Banned and Challenging Books 1). Here are the top three reasons why books are banned from public schools. “The materials” used in the books were “considered to be ‘sexually explicit’, contained ‘offensive language’, and was ‘unsuited to any age group’ (1). Parents wouldn’t want their kids reading stuff over sexually explicit and offensive language that are too young to read these kinds of books.
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...use you never know what you could learn from a book. From the time you were little more than likely you have been read to so books have always been a good thing to us. Books help our brains get smarter so we can learn about the world and the thing that have happen in this country and world.
Books should not be banned for many different reasons. In today’s world our society needs to be able to learn from books. Books are what help our youth become smarter. If you learn to read some of the harder and more challenging books in our public libraries you will become more intelligent in the world. Learning to read is a valuable source to have and learn from because if you can read and write you will be very intelligent. If you can learn to read harder and challenged books such as The Great Gatsby and The Scarlet letter then you will probably be smarter than the average

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