Essay On Banning Book

Book Banning has Become Out of Control Have you ever read Charlotte's Web, The Lorax, or The Giving Tree? And if you have, you probably read them when you were young and in elementary school. These books and thousands of others are now considered banned books. Now, what is a banned book you may ask? There are two types of banned books. There are challenged books where people are trying to get a book banned. And a banned book is where the book has been banned completely. When a book gets banned, it’s taken off the shelves in schools and libraries and isn't allowed to be sold in that distract. Banning books has been an increasing problem in these coming times and it needs to end. Everyone has a right to read books. And when you ban these books

Whether you're reading a book about butterflies and rainbows or a person showing their journey in transition to a different gender, that is their right to choose what to read. “The freedom to read and other components of intellectual freedom are vital to literacy”(The Student's Right to Read). A lot of parents argue that they just want to keep their children safe and don’t want their children to be exposed to certain things. But as a result of this, they are taking away the rights of everyone else by banning these books. One article that covers this topic well is called “Censorship by Numbers”.“Librarians and governing bodies should maintain that parents—and only parents—have the right and the responsibility to restrict the access of their children—and only their children—to library resources”. This says that parents still have the absolute right to not have their children read certain things, but by banning books they are taking away everyone's right to

When books like The Catcher in the Rye are banned. A lot of schools have bought 100s of copies of this book. So when it's banned, schools lose a lot of money and now teachers have to find a new book for their classrooms, which can be very expensive. This creates a bigger problem for teachers because their curriculum keeps changing every year and making the curriculum very unsteady (Chiesa). Not only does this make the curriculum shaky but also can make it harder for everyone to be represented in the classroom. “Books that show rep­re­sen­ta­tion of dif­fer­ent peo­ple and sit­u­a­tions that are dif­fer­ent from there’s can teach them em­pa­thy (Chiesa).” But if you ban these kinds of books it makes it so much harder for teachers to find books for their students and their