The world has so many rules dictated by people that are never seen. Society blindly follow them without questioning who makes them and why they are qualified to do so. These commands include social expectations, government laws, and more. A controversial issue in today’s age is censorship. Many novels have been challenged and banned from curriculums because inexperienced people argue for senseless reasons. Parents, boards of education, and society have been continuing to ban novels from schools for personal benefit, politics, fear of individualism, and to inhibit students from developing.
For many years school boards have made policies and decisions for the gain of the members. In today’s world there is no such thing as being unbiased. Many …show more content…
Many decisions and votes are swayed because of a certain sponsor or because of other political reasons. Most boards of education consist of ruthless politicians that do not care for the students. They make their decisions based on what other districts are doing and what their money source tells them to do. Elections are not cheap and the people that donate their money are behind the scenes making the decisions. When a board votes on banning a novel from the curriculum, most of the votes are dependent on what they feel. No fact comes to light when a decision is being made. They are allowed to make decisions that affect thousands of students solely based on their opinion. They are restricting the students from gaining their own insight to form their own opinions. These people want the students to conform and to believe exactly what they do which is why they ban certain books. For instance, if a black member of a board feels that The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, is offensive then he will vote and do his best to remove the novel from the curriculum. There are many scenes in the novel that are seen as offensive such as it being hard for Huck to “go and humble [himself up] to a nigger” (Twain 86). Many find the use of this diction as offensive even though it was colloquial language. Therefore, the politicians are being selfish by removing the novel and deterring …show more content…
School is where students become individuals. When they are restricted from reading certain novels it is because society is afraid of individualism. They do not want the students to become individuals because the goal of society is to make people conform to a single norm. There is a need for everybody to be the same in order to make them easier to control and define. But the generation that makes all the important decisions today were not limited by the generation before them. They were allowed to have their own opinion on controversial topics. They were allowed to read whatever they wanted because nobody could stop them. Today society argues with scientific language in order to evade from explaining the real reasons. Society does not want kids to read controversial novels like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn because they want the children to grow up to be exactly like them. They want the children to follow previous opinions not to create their own. Society creates reasons such as profane language and immaturity in order to remove novels from curriculums. But even administrators believe that “the literary value of the book outweighed the negative aspect of the language employed” (Sova). For instance The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn is a “very good platform to talk about racial issues” (Sova). Society needs to understand that they cannot restrict people from having their own ideas. Reading
For many years school boards have made policies and decisions for the gain of the members. In today’s world there is no such thing as being unbiased. Many …show more content…
Many decisions and votes are swayed because of a certain sponsor or because of other political reasons. Most boards of education consist of ruthless politicians that do not care for the students. They make their decisions based on what other districts are doing and what their money source tells them to do. Elections are not cheap and the people that donate their money are behind the scenes making the decisions. When a board votes on banning a novel from the curriculum, most of the votes are dependent on what they feel. No fact comes to light when a decision is being made. They are allowed to make decisions that affect thousands of students solely based on their opinion. They are restricting the students from gaining their own insight to form their own opinions. These people want the students to conform and to believe exactly what they do which is why they ban certain books. For instance, if a black member of a board feels that The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, is offensive then he will vote and do his best to remove the novel from the curriculum. There are many scenes in the novel that are seen as offensive such as it being hard for Huck to “go and humble [himself up] to a nigger” (Twain 86). Many find the use of this diction as offensive even though it was colloquial language. Therefore, the politicians are being selfish by removing the novel and deterring …show more content…
School is where students become individuals. When they are restricted from reading certain novels it is because society is afraid of individualism. They do not want the students to become individuals because the goal of society is to make people conform to a single norm. There is a need for everybody to be the same in order to make them easier to control and define. But the generation that makes all the important decisions today were not limited by the generation before them. They were allowed to have their own opinion on controversial topics. They were allowed to read whatever they wanted because nobody could stop them. Today society argues with scientific language in order to evade from explaining the real reasons. Society does not want kids to read controversial novels like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn because they want the children to grow up to be exactly like them. They want the children to follow previous opinions not to create their own. Society creates reasons such as profane language and immaturity in order to remove novels from curriculums. But even administrators believe that “the literary value of the book outweighed the negative aspect of the language employed” (Sova). For instance The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn is a “very good platform to talk about racial issues” (Sova). Society needs to understand that they cannot restrict people from having their own ideas. Reading