Censorship Hinders Education in Schools
Censorship is a negative influence on schools and education in general. Censorship is the forbidding, blocking, limiting, or obstructing access to information for whatever reason. When it is introduced into the school education system it comes with some flaws and drawbacks not intended by the original effect by which safety is the biggest concern. When teachers assign research on a certain controversial or unsafe topic, it is not allowed to be surfed on the school grounds due to internet filters or lack of books concerning them how are the students expected to complete the assignment let alone learn with that big barrier? There is also the problem with that it will actually encourage the curiosity of …show more content…
¨In an era of heightened sensitivity about what and how people say things, we need ongoing conversations about how literature can be part of our lives without undue stress and controversy¨ (Patterson). Sometimes people take things too seriously/personally and then get mad at that person for expressing their opinions, this causes a problem on how people chose what should be in school libraries. Topic discussion is a big part of making this a normality, create a better understanding of the book and its meaning and keeping the drive to read renewed in the discussions that will take place for the books. ¨When engaging in critical literacy, reader's question reality and entertain multiple perspectives about particular topics, attitudes, and behaviors ¨ (Patterson). This is a really good reason as to why banned books are good in education, they spark conversations about how the materials affected them as a person and how they grow and think. They create their own perspective of the world and grow around it and create new ideas and skills that they can use later on in life to help them move along. They create attitudes and personalities from these works that they will analyze and understand better than had they not viewed these materials. ¨I resisted this because it would require me to do two things: separate the collection into books I personally would have to judge as mature, and then label the books in some way to make them identifiable as such” (Howerton). Choosing what is appropriate and not is a hard decision to make and one of the reasons why it is controversial. They have to label things as mature or not and it creates a right or wrong mentality which is detrimental to growth and the perception of what life is really like. Labeling books such as this or that creates a tag that people may or may not agree with and gives room to the possible