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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
Instead of banning books from school libraries, require children to get parental permission to use these libraries. Library collections remain in tact and parents can keep their children sheltered from books they find offensive. Problem solved.
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I take it that you don't think there will be any issues for the libraries in trying to enforce your overly simplistic solution? How when some parents will allow and encourage their children to read a book and others won't want their child to be in the neighbourhood of that book are they to manage this? One family has no objections to their child reading a book featuring a non-traditional family while another family thinks their child reading such a book is the gateway to the apocalypse. Keeping the 'questionable' books behind the counter and check ID before allowing children to view them? I don't know about your school system in Norway but around here, the average school librarian does not have the time to spend.
Or were you thinking of simply denying access to the entire library? Toss the baby out with the bathwater method of managing the library collections?