America is a very open and free country, but some people believe that Censorship belongs in our schools. I believe that censorship should not affect America because of the hiding of information in schools, and stripping the public from information is horrible for our society. While many people don't like all the information that the government gives us, there is no reason to strive for that from people who want that information. This happens in the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. In the novel, books are burned due to the censorship that people gave them for what they believe is harming their culture. As described in “Colored people don’t like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don’t feel good about Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Burn it. …show more content…
Schools will at times ban certain books due to age restrictions, or will if it doesn't go with the school's intentions. This happens to popular author Stevin King with many of his books being banned from schools. As Mr.King describes” If you are not careful and diligent about defending the right of your children to read, there won't be much left, especially at the junior-high level where kids begin to develop a lively life of the mind, but books about heroic boys who come off the bench to hit home runs in the bottom of the ninth and shy girls with good personalities who finally get that big prom date with the boy of their dreams. Is this what you want for your kids, keeping in mind that controversy and surprise -- sometimes even shock -- are often the whetstones on which young minds are sharpened?” Because of how schools teach and the compulsory subjects you learn, having the opportunity to learn something on your own without the censorship of the school will help students in the long run. Without giving children the choice to choose what they want to read and learn about causes them to not grow