The library association says the number of reported challenges in the past 30 years has hovered between about 400 or 500, but there are many bans they never learn about. While parents have traditionally launched the lion’s share of challenges, Deborah Caldwell-Stone, an attorney with the association, says she has noticed “an uptick inorganized efforts” to remove books from public and school libraries.
I so need one of those! I think this year’s improvements will involve having readings during times people aren’t mostly...
NOTE TO SELF: I would be all over a subtlefire banned books week! Also, I made a shirt for it a while ago:
nothing makes me angrier than book censorship
The Perks of Being a Wallflower is on there…. Banning books is stupid, end of story. Oh! And this little gem: “In...
^^^THIS^^^
I hate this
People censor children when they view society as unstable and are afraid for the future. Banning books gives them an...
Uh…what’s the point of banning a SEX EDUCATION/PUBERTY book??
I was like shaking my head at all of them and then I saw Me Talk Pretty One Day and I was just like NO NO NO. Goddamn...
Censorship sucks, and that’s the end of that.
I just looked at the map of where and why some books are ‘under fire’ and some of the reasons given are really...
………………………….. This will happen more and more often if the GOP and their mouth-breathing Tea Bagger stooges get their way.