Right to read
Books can be challenged or banned at anytime when it is in a school’s library if a teacher, student, parent, or administrator thinks it is explicit or offensive in any way. Books get banned because of offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited to any age group. The Roman Catholic church began the Index Librorum Prohibitorum in 1559 which is a list of all the notorious banned books. Plato was the first to talk about the idea of banning books in 360 B.C., he said that we should get rid of any books that were unsatisfactory. The only way that people have dealt with getting rid of books that seem to be a harm to society is just banning them and taking them off the shelves.
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Depending on what grade level a student is in they should be reading the classics in literature and also the creative writing that many authors seem to do so well. Parents are usually the ones who try to bring a stop to their student reading such mature leveled literature that they think has content that is very intense for the student. Before a librarian or even a teacher can order a book they do have to get it approved by an administrator which means they would have to take time out of their day to read the content of the book and make sure it is school appropriate. There is also the school board committee that has to decide if the book is appropriate for the students to be able to read. If they think the book has too much intense content for the students it will not be approved and it cannot be ordered. Many books do not get approved because there seems to always be one person who feels like the content of the book is too offensive for students to be able to read. When this happens the first amendment gets overlooked because the school board has to make sure that they are not giving out inappropriate materials to their students. Book censorship has always been a problem and it will continue to be a problem because many people think certain materials are too offensive for people to be able to read and others fight for the first amendment in that case. People will always fight to keep something on the shelves that they think the population should be able to read because it might have useful information that everyone needs to know or they want to be able to exercise their freedom of
Books can be challenged or banned at anytime when it is in a school’s library if a teacher, student, parent, or administrator thinks it is explicit or offensive in any way. Books get banned because of offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited to any age group. The Roman Catholic church began the Index Librorum Prohibitorum in 1559 which is a list of all the notorious banned books. Plato was the first to talk about the idea of banning books in 360 B.C., he said that we should get rid of any books that were unsatisfactory. The only way that people have dealt with getting rid of books that seem to be a harm to society is just banning them and taking them off the shelves.
In July 1978 the court of United States …show more content…
Depending on what grade level a student is in they should be reading the classics in literature and also the creative writing that many authors seem to do so well. Parents are usually the ones who try to bring a stop to their student reading such mature leveled literature that they think has content that is very intense for the student. Before a librarian or even a teacher can order a book they do have to get it approved by an administrator which means they would have to take time out of their day to read the content of the book and make sure it is school appropriate. There is also the school board committee that has to decide if the book is appropriate for the students to be able to read. If they think the book has too much intense content for the students it will not be approved and it cannot be ordered. Many books do not get approved because there seems to always be one person who feels like the content of the book is too offensive for students to be able to read. When this happens the first amendment gets overlooked because the school board has to make sure that they are not giving out inappropriate materials to their students. Book censorship has always been a problem and it will continue to be a problem because many people think certain materials are too offensive for people to be able to read and others fight for the first amendment in that case. People will always fight to keep something on the shelves that they think the population should be able to read because it might have useful information that everyone needs to know or they want to be able to exercise their freedom of