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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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Makes sense to me. And the smart parent would hopefully give permission.
I grew up in Texas, and I'm thankful *my* parents didn't interfere with my reading. I got my first public library card in third grade. Never looked back.
I'd have
HATED to be limited to only *age-appropriate* materials when I was young. I read anything I could get my mitts on and would've been bored out of my ever living skull if I'd been limited that way.
Oddly, despite all my reading, a fair amount of which probably WAS age-inappropriate, I didn't turn into a junkie or prostitute or anything else untoward. Instead, I turned out fairly well-read and with a decent vocabulary. I had no trouble handling anything I was assigned to read in school, in many instances, I'd already read it years earlier.
Literally, I had a college professor who struggled to find something I *hadn't* already read for an assignment. He took me through quite a list! We finally ended up on Thomas Mann,
The Magic Mountain.