For example some books are banned for explicit sexual content. One example provided by (bannedbooksweek.org (#3) is Beloved by Toni Morrison), which banned because of “And again and again, parental complaints are lodged against the book because of its violence, sexual content.” Sure it might be good to not let elementary schoolers read this but most of these books had barely anything bad the people who banned them were too sensitive. A major influential book that was banned is Of Mice and Men by John Stienbeck, and according to (PBS #2) “Challenges have included complaints about ‘profanity,’ morbid and depressing themes”. This is a good book to teach and should not be banned because it has important messages and themes and should be part of highschool literature. The people that claim this would have a point on banning it if it was being taught to elementary school but its to high schoolers and is perfectly fine for their
For example some books are banned for explicit sexual content. One example provided by (bannedbooksweek.org (#3) is Beloved by Toni Morrison), which banned because of “And again and again, parental complaints are lodged against the book because of its violence, sexual content.” Sure it might be good to not let elementary schoolers read this but most of these books had barely anything bad the people who banned them were too sensitive. A major influential book that was banned is Of Mice and Men by John Stienbeck, and according to (PBS #2) “Challenges have included complaints about ‘profanity,’ morbid and depressing themes”. This is a good book to teach and should not be banned because it has important messages and themes and should be part of highschool literature. The people that claim this would have a point on banning it if it was being taught to elementary school but its to high schoolers and is perfectly fine for their