Every year books are ban from being read in public schools and libraries. Why would schools ban books that are important to literature? Don’t books help students increase their wide realm of knowledge in all around areas of literature? Public schools are banning books due to their inappropriate actions, words being used, and them being challenging for most students to read. Instead of reading these kinds of books they choose to pick safer and non-challenging books for their students. Although schools and parents don’t see eye to eye, some parents believe that the books that are banned should be read in school. These parents believe that books should not be banned because it can teach their children life lessons, historical events, and well known authors. The Scarlet Letter and The Great Gatsby are two great examples of books that have been banned from public schools. Some of the greatest books of all time such as, The Great Gatsby and, The Scarlet Letter have been banned by school districts for multiple reasons such as sex and language. First off, books are banned every year due to inappropriate behaviors that parents don’t want their children to read. “Books usually are challenged with the best intentions—to protect others, frequently children, from difficult ideas and information” (About Banned and Challenging Books 1). Here are the top three reasons why books are banned from public schools. “The materials” used in the books were “considered to be ‘sexually explicit’, contained ‘offensive language’, and was ‘unsuited to any age group’ (1). Parents wouldn’t want their kids reading stuff over sexually explicit and offensive language that are too young to read these kinds of books. Furthermore, these characteristics show ho... ... middle of paper ... ...use you never know what you could learn from a book. From the time you were little more than likely you have been read to so books have always been a good thing to us. Books help our brains get smarter so we can learn about the world and the thing that have happen in this country and world. Books should not be banned for many different reasons. In today’s world our society needs to be able to learn from books. Books are what help our youth become smarter. If you learn to read some of the harder and more challenging books in our public libraries you will become more intelligent in the world. Learning to read is a valuable source to have and learn from because if you can read and write you will be very intelligent. If you can learn to read harder and challenged books such as The Great Gatsby and The Scarlet letter then you will probably be smarter than the average
The Constitution states: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." Even though books may influence young minds with negative thinking, society shouldn’t ban books because it prohibits learning and it violates the First Amendment in the Constitution. Banning books takes away the author’s right, some books can be very educational, and it takes away the children’s choice of what they get to read.
With the thought that someone can be hurt by reading a book, people will try to challenge and ban them. To ban a book is to have it restricted from a certain age or audience. Banning and challenging books is trying to keep a certain book away from an audience due to sexual content, going against religious beliefs, language and vulgarity, violence, drugs, self-harm, racism, occult/satanic views, promoting gangs, and going against community standards. An argument from someone who believes books should not be banned is that it is important for the age group to learn about certain content and material as they grow up. Due to controversial content, the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald should be banned.
Banning books from public schools and public libraries is wrong. It’s irrational to have a parent or school board member’s opinion determine what a school district should be reading. Books including and not limited to, The Scarlet Letter, The Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Lord of the Flies, and Animal Farm all have one thing in common. They have all at one time or another been subject to banishment. These literary classics have been around for a long time and proved to be vital to the education of many, especially children and adolescents. These novels teach values and educate children about world affairs that can not come from an everyday experience. These controversial novels encompass the materials that ultimately boost our educational wealth. Banning books infringe
Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learned from the interaction of the first two”(84-85). Books are where people get their information from, banning books basically means the censorship of information.
Countries worldwide actively call for the banning of books that are found to be politically inconvenient, religiously awkward, or embarrassing in one form or another. But for writers like Russia's Vasily Grossman, a book's ban means far more than just a dip in sales. In 1961, he pleaded with the Soviet censors, "I am physically free, but the book to which I have dedicated my life is in jail." (Merkelson). A book represents an idea, thus limiting access to a book is banning the representation of an idea. The banning of books in American schools should not be allowed, because banning books will prevent students from learning the reason for the controversy and alternate viewpoints they can come to on their own.
In order to understand how banning books in schools affect student learning, it is important to understand why books are banned in the first place. If parents describe a book as inappropriate or offensive for children, they can complain about it to the school district to have it banned. If the school district agrees with the parents, they will ban the book from the school curriculum and forbid teachers from teaching the book to students. Parents might think that the book goes against religious or moral...
Kids love freedom. They thrive on it. It’s a part of growing up. The older and more responsible you are the more freedoms you will get. Parents at a variety of schools are restricting the one freedom of children that they should always have. The freedom to chose a book. A number of schools have banned the classic, award winning book “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee. This book is about a little girl who’s father is defending an African American man in court in the south during the 1930’s. Sounds harmless? Many don’t think so! “To Kill A Mockingbird” should not be be banned because it tells an important fictional story about America's past.
People should be allowed to read whatever they want to read, even if it is a touchy subject to someone else. Although some people mainly believe in the banning of books due to explicit content, it actually causes a negative effect on people and children. Not only does it take away the people’s first amendment rights, but it also shelters children from real life situations that might affect their future. Banning books is unconstitutional and shelters children.
Has your school ever banned any books due to them having inappropriate content for your age group? How did it affect you or your peers? Many schools and public libraries have started banning books because of it having unsuitable content in them. I believe that certain books should be banned from libraries because some include racial slurs, others contain a blasphemous dialogue in them and usually kids shouldn’t be exposed to these types of books because of their age, lastly other books encourage children of unsuitable lifestyles that are considered dangerous or inappropriate in this world and it’s unacceptable for many parents to have their child read such topics at such a young and innocent age.
What is a banned book? A banned book is a book that has been removed from the shelves; it could be from a library, classroom, or even the bookstore because of its content. A book could be banned for many reasons, but it could be banned because it contains sex, violence, inappropriate language, religious viewpoints, witch craft, and many more things because other people deem it inappropriate. When someone bans a book they ban it for everyone else too.
The children are the real losers because they are the ones that are not able to read the classic works of literature, which are the backbone of classroom discussions all across the United States. The American Association of School Administrators (AASA) defines censorship as: “The removal, suppression, or restricted circulation of literary, artistic, or educational materials. of images, ideas, and information.on the grounds that these are morally or otherwise objectionable in light of standards applied by the censor” (Miner 1998). In schools there are three types of censorship, one type is a “parent” who doesn’t want their child to read a particular book. Another is a parent, teacher, administrator, or school board member who argues that no one in the class, or school, should read the book in dispute.
Books are the blooming flowers of knowledge and wisdom. Without books you would be depriving the world from obtaining knowledge about culture, heritage and literature. No books of any kind should be banned from the library.
“Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” “The Great Gatsby.” “The Catcher in the Rye.” All of these titles may ring a familiar bell to many high school readers across the country. Despite their popularity, many schools have once challenged or banned these books due to their offensive nature in this generation.
There has recently been a renewed interest and passion in the issue of censorship. In the realm of the censorship of books in schools alone, several hundred cases have surfaced each year for nearly the past decade. Controversies over which books to include in the high school English curriculum present a clash of values between teachers, school systems, and parents over what is appropriate for and meaningful to students. It is important to strike a balance between English that is meaningful to students by relating to their lives and representing diversity and satisfying worries about the appropriateness of what is read. This burden often falls on teachers. The purpose of this research paper is to discuss censorship in schools and to argue that the censorship of books in the high school English curriculum is limiting and takes away literature that is meaningful to students.
School systems have to filter what they teach to students, not only to meet standards, but to also protect the students from certain things. Schools try to make the books that they choose censored, but there are still people who go against certain books being banned from the students or even being allowed to be taught. “Challenges to material in school curricula, according to Censorship of Curriculum Materials, by Jean Marie Aurnague-DeSpain and Alan Bass, generally arise in the following areas: Sex and Drug education; Literature showing children challenging parents and authorities; teaching evolution without referring to creationism; showing women behaving in nontraditional ways” (Education World 8). One of the books that come into question