> Recently, the principal and school teacher council released a (very long) list of books we're not allowed to read Frankly, that sounds like an excitable kid

> Recently, the principal and school teacher council released a (very long) list of books we're not allowed to read Frankly, that sounds like an excitable kid making up stuff. (I've known kids who made up the same thing.) However, it doesn't matter if it's true because schools can't stop kids from reading what they want. And, as you've pointed out, that school is a voluntary choice. > > No one is stopping those kids from getting those books. > That's a little naive. If a kid requested or suggested the book for the school library and it was refused on the grounds it had been banned; how is that a good thing? It's no worse or different than any other reason for not carrying something. Why are you so hung up on why the school doesn't carry something? The amount that schools can carry is in the noise compard to what's available. Compare Amazon's book list to any school's library, and Amazon misses a lot of things. > it appears the service was popular.. indicating that the non-provision of that material was actually stopping kids from getting the books as part of their normal routine. I knew a kid who ran a Playboy/Hustler lending library. Please distinguish. (School refused to carry/discouraged and kids wanted.) > The implicit suggestion by a school that actively bans a book is that there is something wrong with it. Except that they don't ban, they merely say "we won't get these things for you, just like we won't get the vast majority of things". And, if you think that kids pay attention to that stuff, you clearly don't have much experience with kids.