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Originally Posted by hildea
Several posters here have written that parents have a right to decide what their children can read. In my opinion, children have a right to information, and their right should weigh heavier than the parents' right to restrict information.
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You can't have it both ways. Either children are minors whom parents are responsible for, or they're adults. By law, in the United States, children are minors until they are 18 (and parent's are responsible for their actions). Since that
is the law, parents have the right to restrict what kind of material they're kids read.
Many public school teachers think they're rights should trump the parent's rights, and apparently this goes for public school librarians as well. Unfortunately too many of them think that those "rights" (rights they don't have) include helping the kids to "grow up" in ways they think are appropriate in opposition to the wishes of the parents.
This is partly why my kids did
not go to public school.
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Originally Posted by hildea
We should trust schools and librarians to determine which books are suitable for which ages. The damage if some kids read books that's too advanced for them is minimal compared to the damage kids suffer from being kept in ignorance about how bodies work, what sex is, and other topics that typically get targeted by bans.
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So you claim. Do you really think kids are that ignorant about this subject because they're "deprived" of reading smut? I've got a feeling you've never had kids, so you're probably unaware about what parents go through when raising them. Kind of like too many school teachers who want to be kids' friends instead of responsible adults. It's not the school teachers' or school librarians' job to decide when and how kids should be introduced to the adult world. That's the parents' job.