Banning Books? Again? That Trick Never Works.

[CC27]

Star Member MineralMan
Banning Books? Again? That Trick Never Works.
Banning books draws some attention to those titles, at least. When it comes to schools, the real difficulty is in getting most students to read anything. Even if you assign a book to read, a lot of kids just won't.

Most kids, perhaps. I was not one of those kids. I read everything I could get my hands on. If someone banned a book, I was sure to go find it and read it cover to cover. There were a lot of books that my parents and teachers would rather I didn't read. I read them all anyhow.

But, I wasn't the norm. Most of my friends in elementary, middle, and high school read as little as they could get away with. They thought I was bookish. They might have thought I was nuts. I don't know. But I read. My parents had a book club membership. As is usual with those memberships, they forgot to tell the book club they didn't want the book of the month, so it showed up in the mail box. I read it immediately.

My parents gave up on trying to keep specific books away from me, because it didn't work. When Peyton Place dropped into our mail box, my parents read it, and then hid it in their bedroom. I read it anyway. My Mom saw me reading it and started to tell me I shouldn't read that book. I think I was 13 years old. She started to tell me, and then just shrugged and left me alone to my reading. Smart Mom.

Ban a book? Well if you do, a bunch of kids are going to read it just to see why you banned it. Want to keep them from reading it? Just assign it as required reading and most kids will run away from it as fast as possible.

The problem isn't that kids are reading books you don't want them to read. The problem is that they're not reading enough books in the first place. Let them read what they want. It won't hurt them to read a cautiously worded passage about an incestuous relative. Instead, they'll learn something and avoid falling into that trap. (Peyton Place reference.)

Encourage kids to read freely. Reading is the key to a real education, and kids should read what they want to read. If you make them read books they don't want to read, books become a punishment.

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You and your follow DUmmies love banning books

[jukin]

Banning opinions is the preferred progressive-fascist way!! And every single leftist loves it.

[freedumb2003b]

The "bans" are removing out and out pornography, disguised as lbgtqiyyz literature.  This is like complaining removal of Hustler magazine from the libraries of elementary schools.

[SVPete]

Is this kind of "banning" books all that different from spamming Amazon and B&N with BS negative reviews of books written by conservatives? Or childishly shelving books written by conservatives in stores' children's or fantasy-fiction sections?

[DLR Pyro]

Star Member MineralMan
Banning Books? Again? That Trick Never Works.

now do banning people from social media because you don't like the messages they post.....

[ABC-2]

You and your follow DUmmies love banning books

Succinctly, and truthfully put, in only 8 words ... CC  

As compared to MM's lengthy

[enslaved1]

Tis fascinating how the moonbats howl censorship when schools (which they de facto run) not carrying books which are not age or maturity level appropriate in said schools, even though the books are readily available in public libraries, at books stores and on line, yet are emphatic that removing someone who they disagree with from what has become the primary communications platforms of our time is not silencing them. 

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Ok, the Koran inspired the worst attack on American soil in our entire history.  It triggers my national trauma, therefore it's gotta go.  See how that works?  (of course they don't)