How it worked in my day was that Mr. Edwards would take me down to the school library, go into the back room where the questionable books were kept under the vigilant eye of the librarian and return a few minutes later with my book report assignment. Slaughterhouse Five happened to be one.
I don't imagine he did that with every student but I never heard that segregating the "adult" content from the masses caused any controversy either. It all seems rather silly to me. I certainly didn't WANT to read Slaughterhouse five then, not when there were Dungeons and Dragons rulebooks to devour.
Maybe that was old Mr. Edwards' point.
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