Jesus Rangel Mrs. Urckfitz English 3B/D March 5 2018 Should books be banned? Administrations in the United States the right away from writers and readers to choose and learn by banning books, I believe that books should not be banned because people have the right to educate themselves. I hope to prove that censorship and banning of certain books goes against individual rights. I believe the banning of books disenfranchises groups by restricting information and their ability to educate themselves these groups include prisoners and students. This disenfranchisement contributes to the cycle present in many prisons where prisoners are not reformed and continue their lives in a cycle of crime and imprisonment. According to a Supreme …show more content…
This leaves us with the question why are books being banned? According to the ALA, books are banned or challenged to protect others from “difficult ideas and information.” more specifically parents or guardians find these books inappropriate for containing some or all the following, anti-family views, homosexuality, offensive language and sexually explicit scenes or descriptions. What most schools or organizations that ban these boks fail to see or understand the book as a whole. With these banning's schools take away the right of students to further their own education as well as the right to see the world from different perspectives. Schools by letting the minority of those who adamantly reject the books win fail at their own goal of providing students a wider understanding of the world. This type of censorship impedes progress Schools are encouraging students to think small and to forget about societies problems and say that there is no such thing as gender and sexual inequality or that ethnic minorities are not being discriminated against. These kinds of truths being swept up and forgotten about by the banning books."Literary Censorship in Schools Impedes Progress." "Schools Once again Face Bind Over Censorship Vs. Book