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It's a novel that begins with a school disaster and includes all kinds of violence, including sexual. Deciding what books are appropriate for a high school lib
by stakkur 5y ago
It's a novel that begins with a school disaster and includes all kinds of violence, including sexual.
Deciding what books are appropriate for a high school library isn't an exact science, and it's often down to a few people carrying out a district selection process. It's not as simple as "you have to stock every book else you're guilty of censorship", regardless of the motives of people seeking to exclude (or include) specific books.
And for what it's worth, thousands of books are rejected each year by American school districts. Publishers, authors, and other interests push hard to get 'their' books into schools.
- vb6sp6 5y agoThe novel doesn't start with a school shooting. It starts with a school blowing up due to a natural gas leak (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_London_School_explosion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_London_School_explosion)
- stakkur 5y agoYep. One of the worst disasters in school histories. The app autocorrected 'disaster' to 'shooting'. I edited my comment. But the point here is the inclusion of a disaster that killed hundreds of children, not my grammar. To be clear--since this is HN--I haven't read the book and don't have an opinion about it's inclusion in a school library. But I do resist the temptation to accept articles like this at face value, without context or critique.