Midterm Essay Looking back when we were in high school they always said how we are being censored. Sure they put censorship on computers but that is for good reasons because we don’t need teens being distracted by Facebook and Youtube. But some of the things they do censor is history and we find that it is not right to do so. Some books are banned in schools or have been revised to take out bad language or things they don’t want our minds to see how we were back in the day when no one cared if you wrote offensive words in books of TV shows. There are many example of censorship whether it be over the radio, in a book, on tv, or on the internet. The people who decide what to censor can be blocking the truth from adolescence in todays society,
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When students go to school and they have access to computers there are many things that are child blocked or just blocked because of it being R-rated. Certain things we defiantly do believe need to be blocked such as social media and other activities that no student should be looking at while in school. But, sometimes they can be doing a search and many sites are blocked because of the schools definition of an “inappropriate image or ad” Censorship is not an easy word to define but according to the American Civil Liberties Union “Censorship, the suppression of words, images, or ideas that are “offensive,”" . This can withhold information students need in order to do assignments and research for …show more content…
Access to a wide range of views, and the opportunity to discuss and dissent, are essential to education and serve schools’ legitimate goals to prepare students for adulthood and participation in the democratic process.” If so many people think this way why do we not fight to have different policies? Teachers and other administrative figures could be the key to helping us give our young minds the history and education they need to succeed in the world. According to People for the American Way “Between 1990 and 2000, there were 6,364 challenges reported to or recorded by the Office for Intellectual Freedom. Seventy-one percent of the challenges were to materials in schools or school libraries. Another twenty-four percent were to material in public libraries. Sixty percent of the challenges were brought by parents, fifteen percent by patrons, and nine percent by administrators.” These people are fighting. Delaney believes that if we just exposed certain things at appropriate ages that adolescence minds can be expanded and be more prepared for when they are ready to go out into the world on their own. The regulations and restrictions we have in place now are just that, restricting. We can keep some of the restriction’s to
When students go to school and they have access to computers there are many things that are child blocked or just blocked because of it being R-rated. Certain things we defiantly do believe need to be blocked such as social media and other activities that no student should be looking at while in school. But, sometimes they can be doing a search and many sites are blocked because of the schools definition of an “inappropriate image or ad” Censorship is not an easy word to define but according to the American Civil Liberties Union “Censorship, the suppression of words, images, or ideas that are “offensive,”" . This can withhold information students need in order to do assignments and research for …show more content…
Access to a wide range of views, and the opportunity to discuss and dissent, are essential to education and serve schools’ legitimate goals to prepare students for adulthood and participation in the democratic process.” If so many people think this way why do we not fight to have different policies? Teachers and other administrative figures could be the key to helping us give our young minds the history and education they need to succeed in the world. According to People for the American Way “Between 1990 and 2000, there were 6,364 challenges reported to or recorded by the Office for Intellectual Freedom. Seventy-one percent of the challenges were to materials in schools or school libraries. Another twenty-four percent were to material in public libraries. Sixty percent of the challenges were brought by parents, fifteen percent by patrons, and nine percent by administrators.” These people are fighting. Delaney believes that if we just exposed certain things at appropriate ages that adolescence minds can be expanded and be more prepared for when they are ready to go out into the world on their own. The regulations and restrictions we have in place now are just that, restricting. We can keep some of the restriction’s to