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However, like queentess, I disagree with banning any of the books from the school library. It is one thing to ban "teaching" the book, but something different to ban the book entirely (and banning a classic like Slaughterhouse Five from the library is rather stupid).
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The banning from the library has been my whole beef. What part of age-appropriate blah, blah, curriculum, blah, teaching, blah, blah, blah has to do with that? They removed the books from the library because of pressure from near-sighted (but probably prominent) community members. Face it, they were never going to actually
teach with Slaughterhouse Five in a small town public high-school in the first place. So all that age appropriate hooha was just to distract from the fact that they were banning a book from the shelves.
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Originally Posted by anamardoll
Seems like there's two different discussions here with people talking past each other -- I think most people agree that the school can teach what it feels is appropriate but shouldn't remove books from the library simply because Christy McChristerson is offended that the book exists. Is that the long and short of it?
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You got it.
