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Should Censorship Be Allowed In Schools

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It should be legal for the government to delete or hold back information which people might find politically or morally objectionable.

Introduction: In many schools and governments across the world, censorship has been a major discussion point. “Censorship is the control of the information circulated within a society.” What this means is that in a school or government, the leaders have the right to not teach or reveal something to the public. If our school was for censorship, the teachers and administrators would have the ability to withhold facts or details that may be disgusting or offensive even if was the dark truth. With a school that was against censorship, the teachers could tell us anything and everything they wanted to teach without getting in trouble for teaching something that offended or disgusted another teacher or pupil. Today, most schools have a mix of the two. The teachers are allowed (for the most part) to teach only some deep details, but must retain some which might be disturbing to someone in the class. What really makes censorship important is the effect on students and citizens ability to learn and accept the disgusting or offending. Individuals and parents have decided various subject materials are inappropriate for students in school.

It has a lot of impacts on the way students learning skills …show more content…

He had buried alive about 460 Confucian scholars, just because their ideas clashed with his. In the Greek Classical Period, 399 BC, censorship was also common. Socrates, a famous Greek philosopher at the time, had spread ideas that collided with the thoughts and beliefs of normal Greeks. For example, he did not believe in the Greek gods or goddesses. Therefore, his work was censored, and he was poisoned and was killed at age 70. In A.D. 8, the popular Roman poet Ovid was banished from Rome for writing Ars

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