Censorship in Public Schools
-A principal in a California high shcool bans five books written by Richard Brautigan because he thinks they might contain "obscenities or offensive sexual references" (Berger 59).-A Vermont high school librarian is orced to resign because she fought the school board's decision to remove Richard Price's The Wanderers, and to "restrict" the use of Stephen King's Carrie and Patrick Mann's Dog Day Afternoon (Jones 33). -An Indiana school board takes action that leads to the burning of many copies of a textbook that deals with drugs and the sexual behavior of teenagers (Berger 61). These cases of censorship in public shools are not unusual and there is evidence that such challenges are increasing (Woods 2). These challenges are actually typical o the ones being leveled against school libraries today. These challenges can come from one person or a group concerned with the suitability of the material in question. In almost every case, the efort to ban books is said to be "justified by fesr of the harmful effects that the books may haave on young children" (Berger 59). The result of therse censorship attempts has been two opposing sides: one side believes that "more suitable materials can us
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Approximate Word count = 1748
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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