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Originally Posted by John F
Are you referring to a Utah law?
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Originally Posted by DNSB
I think they are suggesting that some books will require a parental permission slip to be on record before the student is allowed to check out certain books.
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I was referring to parents being parents and supervising how their minor children spend their time, including finding out which books they've checked out from the library. As a parent, you could forbid your children from checking out certain books or even require them to return books that you don't want them to read, but your parental rights don't give you the ability to forbid other people's children from checking out and reading those books (by denying the library's ability to offer them).
As a parent, you have the right to control which kinds of entertainment your children can access. In the US at least, you do not have the right to impose that control on other people through the power of the state, as book bans are a violation of everybody else's First Amendment rights.