Book Banning in 21st-Century America by Emily J. M. Knox

Author:Emily J. M. Knox
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2012-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

Once again there is fear that the institution’s values do not match the parents’. When this happens, children will feel like outsiders in the school environment. Presumably other children would know that they were not allowed to read a particular book and this would make these children “different” from the others in school. When such a situation occurs, it can cause tension at home.

When public libraries and schools have objectionable material, they make parents’ jobs more difficult. According to challengers, administrators of these two institutions have two roles to play. First, they must keep parents informed of what is going on in their institutions. Second, they must ensure that such controversial materials are not available for students. These ideas will be discussed in more detail in the following chapter, but it is important to note that this is how challengers conceptualize the relationship between public institutions and parenting. The following speaker at a hearing in Clarkstown, New York, states these ideas explicitly:

So, your job is to educate our children and to inform the parents properly so they can make the right decisions as to whether or not what their child is learning squares with their moral values. That was not done. And this is not the first instance. Your job is not to make our job as parents harder. Your job is to help us so that we can develop our children into model young men and women who go out into the world. We are all very busy in this society and I just want to say to all the parents here: take the time and know what your children are learning. (Male speaker #4, Book challenge hearing, Clarkstown, NY, March 24, 2011)

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