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Should The Outsiders Be Taught In Public Schools

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"The Outsiders", a novel by S. E. Hinton, is a well written piece of litterature that contains a large amout of violence, death, alcohol usage, smoking, and swearing. This novel is okay to use in public schools because teenagers need to know about smoking, alcohol, etc. The novel is also considered "a classic" according to treasuryislands.wordpress.com. This book should not only be used and read in classrooms for the above reasons, but also because of the wonderful moral the story teaches us. The first reason to allow this novel to be read in public schools is because it is realistic. Without having knowledge of what smoking, drinking, etc. are and what they do to you're body, we as youth would not knowif it was okay to partake in those
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