MEMBER BLOG TAG: banned books
| Thursday, October 11, 2007 2:21PM | | | | Banned Books | Tags: banned books, public schools, education, Supreme Court
| | | | I read recently a list of titles of children's books and young adult books that had been banned, and I wonder what country I'm living in. Gay penguins are too dangerous to read about? Books that contain words that in a different context would be harmful but between their covers give me the power to understand where racism came from historically?
I remember rather fondly reading all sorts of wondrously devious and perhaps deviant books and short stories when I was in elementary school in the 70s and junior high in the 1980s. What would have become of me if I hadn't been allowed to read these books? Is sexual content so dangerous in the age of AIDS that... | | | | | |
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