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Originally Posted by mldavis2
Just search for 'banned books' and you'll quickly fill any teen-ager's wish list of reading material. The more elusive the quarry, the more fanatic the hunter.
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This point has been made a few times, and in the interest of continuing the discussion in a perhaps new area:
Can Mythbusters weigh in on this? I have to say that, in my opinion, if a teenager wasn't likely to read the class text before it was banned, the act of banning it may not make
that much of a difference.
Teenagers are about as complex as adults and they don't immediately do what is forbidden like good (bad?) little robots; nor are they stupid. Many of them may (correctly) divine this situation as being a power contest between adults over things they themselves may not care about. For instance, trying to ban evolution being taught in certain schools didn't suddenly cause our national science scores to leap, you know?
I mean, "teenager's wishlist"? I'm pretty sure Slaughterhouse Five and Huck Finn aren't being read more than Harry Potter and Twilight.
