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Astonishingly so. I don't understand how anyone could not think certain books are inappropriate for school libraries.
by gweinberg 11y ago
Astonishingly so. I don't understand how anyone could not think certain books are inappropriate for school libraries.
- jacobolus 11y agoThat’s a very different question, and I think you’re radically misinterpreting the opinion of the “don’t ban books” camp. There’s a big difference between trusting school librarians to make appropriate choices of books to put in school libraries vs. letting a politically appointed central committee maintain lists of banned books or subjects. Only a small minority think that young children should have easy and unsupervised access to every book in the world. * * * Edit: I just looked at the original source, and IMO AlexandrB is a bit confused about the poll results. There were two sections of the poll, one about books in school libraries (Tables 1A and 1B), and another about banning books in general (Table 2). The two shouldn’t be mixed up. http://www.theharrispoll.com/health-and-life/Censorship_2015.html http://www.theharrispoll.com/health-and-life/Censorship_2015... (scroll down to the tables at the bottom) In other words, as far as I can tell that 28% is in favor of banning certain books in general, not just for school libraries.
- alextgordon 11y agoBooks with refs to violence: 45 SHOULD, 48 SHOULD NOT Books with refs to sex: 51 SHOULD, 43 SHOULD NOT The Bible: 80 SHOULD, 13 SHOULD NOT For a country of christians, shockingly few seem to have read the bible!