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Originally Posted by DNSB
Do you actually have any proof that many of those books were not available in the school libraries 40 years ago (and please limit yourself to those books that were published more than 40 years ago)? And unlike what many people seem to think, the library in an elementary school will not have the same books as a middle or secondary school library. Even in some of the unified schools, the libraries have sections for the different age levels.
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Well, most of them on the list were not written 40 years ago, so they could not possibly be available. That's the whole point. Explicit sexual content was never allowed in school libraries. Bans are in place to correct what was always a norm.
I'm also quite baffled by your lack of understanding of the bans in place. The list is quite clear. Explicit sexual content is restricted up to Grade 12. Non-explicit sexual content is restricted up to grade 9. And then there's a large section of books and comics that are allowed for all grades. It's certain that this was not a political thing, it was clearly a carefully researched project.
Schools became lazy, they've allowed modern books that contain sexual content into libraries, so an overarching directive was put in place.