Should The Book Be Taught In Schools

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I remember when my son was little, and I used to read to him. Reading to your children, is a great bonding time. I remember that I used to do the voices of the different characters, and we would both laugh and laugh. Even simple books with one liners in them like goodnight moon! And, teaching a child to read is the most rewarding thing a parent can do.
My son liked Tom Swift adventures, and going back to my childhood I loved the Nancy Drew adventures.
I remember when all the children fell in love with Harry Potter, and a whole generation of children picked up books and read! Some of the teachers and parents loved those books, and then some of the parents decided that they were evil, and from Satan, and I realized the world hadn’t changed quite enough yet. Therefore many schools banned Harry Potter, yet the books gained in popularity to become some of the most read books out there
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The truth is they told very well what the world was like during that time, and yes, the world was more racist than it is now. Mark Twain's books were very popular when I was young, even part of required reading in my school. Nowadays, some schools do not have them available, and even others have had them banned.
I’m totally against any kind of racism, and there are many heads to that beasts; however, I think that books should be readable even when there are about something controversial, and that a better course of action would be that those issues should be discussed. To just ban a book seems wrong to me. Yet, I do think that there should be some age appropriateness for some things. But, that is because I still like to think that innocence should be preserved for a little while longer in a child’s life if

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