The new bans are a response to contemporary political forces whose true motivation has nothing to do with books.
The fact that so many of these challenged books have been in the literary canon for decades is a dead giveaway that the new bans are a response to contemporary political forces whose true motivation has nothing to do with books. What they really want is to destroy public education. Margaret Renkl
The fact that so many of these challenged books have been in the literary canon for decades is a dead giveaway that the new bans are a response to contemporary political forces whose true motivation has nothing to do with books. What they really want is to destroy public education. Margaret Renkl
I completely agree with her. She made a good point, why book a ban overall if you really just think it's not appropriate for a certain grade curriculum? And like she said, the things they're worried about kids reading about are things these kids have been exposed to already, on a probably higher level. The books they are choosing to ban are what correctly expose this type of knowledge to students. We all know what kind of issues occur in elementary-high school, and I'm almost 100% sure that these books are the least of their worries.
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