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Censorship in Public Schools
Title: Censorship in Public Schools
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics
Details: Words: 1630 | Pages: 6.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Censorship in Public Schools
Censorship in Public Schools
-A principal in a California high shcool bans five books written by Richard Brautigan because he thinks they might contain "obscenities or offensive sexual references" (Berger 59).
-A Vermont high school librarian is orced to resign because she fought the school board's decision to remove Richard Price's The Wanderers, and to "restrict" the use of Stephen King's Carrie and Patrick Mann's Dog Day Afternoon (Jones 33).
-An Indiana school board takes action that …showed first 75 words of 1630 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1630 total…the true obscenities of the world (poverty, hunger, war) will be what we shall strive to censor.
Works Cited
Berger, Melvin. Censorship. New York: Franklin Watts, 1982.
Jones, Frances M. Defusing Censorship: The Librarian's Guide to Handling
Censorship Conflicts. Phoenix: The Oryx Press, 1983.
Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1945.
Woods, L.B. A Decade of Censorship in America: The Threat to Classrooms and
Libraries. London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1979.
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