Censorship Should Be Banned In Schools

I liked this book personally, I haven’t heard much about the U.S’s German POW camps before. Usually I hear more details of the Japanese interment camps, and all the injustices of families being separated, and how awful it was for an American citizen to be jailed for being the same nationality. I personally liked the book, but it was extremely tragic throughout most it. Patty is beaten numerous times; her entire family does not care about her. Anton is killed, he was practically the love of her life, and then she is tried for treason. I never knew that you could a twelve-year-old, a child for treason. I feel that while how awful it is to be sent to a reformatory school, Patty is not a bad person and at least she does her time away for her awful

It is not shocking that the most challenges and bans come from parents of younger students. “The vast majority of challenges to reading material, according to the American Library Association (ALA), are made by parents. School and university libraries, public libraries, classrooms, and businesses across the nation see attempts to ban books on a regular, if not frequent, basis; Joan Bertin, executive director of the National Coalition Against Censorship, said she encounters an attempt at book-banning or censorship every week. Banned books range from contemporary bestsellers to centuries-old classics, from fictional narratives to historical and biographical nonfiction, and from children’s fairy tales to adult erotica.” Schools and their libraries are usually the ones who have to deal with the bans and challenges. The problem with bans is that there is a gray area when it comes to what is inappropriate material. Parents tend to be very defensive of their children and opinions on what is too profane or explicit can be very subjective depending on any person. I feel that I would be puzzled if it was up to me to ban a book. Sensitive issues are sometimes important to talk about. People cannot pretend that some difficult subjects should be swept under the rug. When it comes to children learning, there is a good time for them to learn about harsher,

If you ban a book due to its content you are almost covering up its existence in the first place. It may be the most racist, sexist, homophobic book ever in existence, but it should exist. It can exist to be ridiculed, it can inspire debate, covering up and banning anything can be considered at least in the U.S. an infringement on the first amendment. “If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.” It effectively violates free speech, I’m not saying that schools should be required to teach Mein Kampf, but banning a book such as My Summer German Soldier seems extreme. The book teaches valuable points and lessons, it showed that the Germans were people too, and they didn’t all think what their nation tried to do was all right. It makes a point that all people are good and evil, on both sides of the