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Originally Posted by mldavis2
I disagree that removing the books from the library is not the same as book burning. If the book is no longer available it makes no difference where it went or how it was disposed. To remove the book from the library, aside from the question of using the book as study material, assumes that not one of the 4,500 students, many of high school age, are "age-appropriate" to the material. That is censorship by the school, the question of being "right or wrong" notwithstanding.
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The difference is
removed from this school library versus
removed from all libraries. Students still have full access to the books in question, just not at this specific library.
I, personally, do not favor removing the books from the library. However, I still do not see it anywhere near the same as
destroying the books in a public manner and encouraging others to destroy the books as well.
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Back to my salty old Viet Nam war novel -- which no doubt would be censored by that school board as well, due to its realistically explicit language - language which would have been heard by young soldiers of high school age drafted in the 1960's and killed by the thousands during military service. 
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People were drafted at the age of 18. At that point, the student could read whatever they wanted at the school because they would be considered adults.
And remember, from the article, if the parents said the book was okay, the student could read the book. As stances go, this isn't what I'd call hard-lined by any means!
-Pie