Banned Book Essay When books are banned in schools around the nation, there are always reasons behind the decision; it is never made out of spite. The rules for banning novels is very straight forward, if the teachers or school board feel that the book could be harmful to their adolescent readers, then they have to the right to shelter and protect their students from the books. One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest should not be included in school curriculums because its extravagant use of inappropriate language and slurs could lead to an increase in negativity and violence from students in schools. Students and adolescents are increasingly being exposed to literature, such as One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, that contain profanity and insulting
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Frequent exposure to this type of language can cause readers to become immune to the effects of the language and possibly forget how powerful it can be. Incidents involving students using profanity or slurs has unfortunately become common in schools over time, but what has been recently increasing, is incidents involving teachers using profanity in order to assist their topics and discussions. An example of this is in the article, "Boucherville school workshop on bullying ends in tears", where a teacher creates a hostile and unethical teaching environment in order to inform them on the affects of bullying, which was a part of their state curriculum. The article states how, "Without being told why, a 12-year-old boy was asked to leave the classroom by the teacher. His classmates were instructed to think of insults as part of the lesson. After being called back into the classroom, the boy was met with a flurry of insults , ranging from 'idiot' to profanity-laced taunts." This example highlights how classroom topics relating to profanity, insults, or slurs can sometimes lead to negativity against students; and in this case, their teacher creating a teaching environment that targeted the children in the class in order to please the curriculum. Their teacher thought that the …show more content…
When novels are completely banned from curriculums, the students are essentially being stripped from the knowledge that they could have obtained from the novels if they had not been kept from reading them. Also, many believe that exposing adolescents to bad language in books shows them the realistic aspect of the topic or situation that the book is covering. Even though this is true, sometimes the level of inappropriate language in novels can overcome this theory. When books are removed from school curriculums, the decision is always supported with factual evidence, they are never banned based on one's opinion. In an article titled, Intellectual Freedom, Censorship, and Case Law; the author discusses the overall concept of banning books, and how the decision to ban them is made based on reasons that lye within the book, rather than outside opinions that individuals have of them. The article explains how, "The court concedes that school boards are responsible for monitoring the education of their students and can remove information that is educationally unsuitable or pervasively vulgar" (Hendricks 9). This example highlights how if the teacher or school board finds that their students are not mature enough for the content of the books, then they
Frequent exposure to this type of language can cause readers to become immune to the effects of the language and possibly forget how powerful it can be. Incidents involving students using profanity or slurs has unfortunately become common in schools over time, but what has been recently increasing, is incidents involving teachers using profanity in order to assist their topics and discussions. An example of this is in the article, "Boucherville school workshop on bullying ends in tears", where a teacher creates a hostile and unethical teaching environment in order to inform them on the affects of bullying, which was a part of their state curriculum. The article states how, "Without being told why, a 12-year-old boy was asked to leave the classroom by the teacher. His classmates were instructed to think of insults as part of the lesson. After being called back into the classroom, the boy was met with a flurry of insults , ranging from 'idiot' to profanity-laced taunts." This example highlights how classroom topics relating to profanity, insults, or slurs can sometimes lead to negativity against students; and in this case, their teacher creating a teaching environment that targeted the children in the class in order to please the curriculum. Their teacher thought that the …show more content…
When novels are completely banned from curriculums, the students are essentially being stripped from the knowledge that they could have obtained from the novels if they had not been kept from reading them. Also, many believe that exposing adolescents to bad language in books shows them the realistic aspect of the topic or situation that the book is covering. Even though this is true, sometimes the level of inappropriate language in novels can overcome this theory. When books are removed from school curriculums, the decision is always supported with factual evidence, they are never banned based on one's opinion. In an article titled, Intellectual Freedom, Censorship, and Case Law; the author discusses the overall concept of banning books, and how the decision to ban them is made based on reasons that lye within the book, rather than outside opinions that individuals have of them. The article explains how, "The court concedes that school boards are responsible for monitoring the education of their students and can remove information that is educationally unsuitable or pervasively vulgar" (Hendricks 9). This example highlights how if the teacher or school board finds that their students are not mature enough for the content of the books, then they