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Originally Posted by anabolina
If someone in the community objects to a book, it is RIGHT for the library and it's board(or in this case the schoolboard) to review the book and determine if it's right for that purpose and community.
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I really don't get this. Why should a group (community, church, school, sports team, whatever) be allowed to prevent its members from reading something?
Not promoting a book? Sure. But why should a community decide its members are not ALLOWED to read something?
I think this gets to the distinction between not purchasing a book (which, in my view, is akin to not promoting it) and banning it from a library (which is akin to not allowing students to read it - at least, not allowing them to read it unless they can afford to purchase it).
And it is a slippery slope, one we shouldn't even get close to approaching.