Literary Censorship Manifesto

Manifesto “The Student’s Right to Read” Literary Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication or other information which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, politically incorrect or inconvenient as determined by governments, media outlets, authorities or other groups or institutions. Now that I have shared the dictionary definition of literary censorship… I feel that I need to state what literary censorship means to me. I think literary censorship is the governments, media outlets, authorities and/or other groups or institutions blatantly stating that I am incapable of determining what is appropriate for myself, my children, or my students to read. Since we live in a technology rich environment, our communication …show more content…
That means, to me, that Alabama’s education system and academic experts are struggling to find appropriate curriculums to teach students to become responsible, capable, literate individuals. Currently students lack the ability to determine what is an appropriate and reliable means with which to communicate with one another, as well as to determine what information is reliable and trustworthy. Especially, when being bombarded with such vast amounts of information through the technology they have access to daily. Limiting students’ access to literature should never be considered an answer to our students’ struggle with literacy. Actually, quite the opposite is …show more content…
Teachers should be able to expose students to a variety of written language. A students right to an appropriate education cannot and should not be limited by a lack of academic freedom. Students should be given the tools with which to determine what literature speaks to them personally. It is the community’s responsibility to trust teachers to be responsible educators with their students’ best interests at heart. The program of action should be, educating students to determine what literature speaks to them as individuals. Exposing students to a variety of literature, authors and illustrators will enable them to become responsible literate members of society that can appropriately communicate with written language. Each student is different, so therefore their needs are different, so limiting them through literary censorship only limits their