Book Banning

The freedom to read means we shouldn't allow censorship or book banning due to the subject matter, language usage or violent situations. To prevent children from knowing about the world and human nature is unrealistic. Shielding children from the reality of the world does not help out with the experience of life. Instead of shielding children, parents can offer a perspective from personal experiences and help children, its realities and flaws. Children, with guidance from parents, should be able to make decisions about what they read and believe. Guardians need to take the responsibility, deciding what is appropriate or inappropriate for their children. We shouldn't sacrifice our First Amendment rights to censor just to be protected from what other people consider right and wrong.. The banning of books is immoral because it would violate the first amendment, change the way people can teach other about life and would prevent the creativity of writing books a struggle. Freedom to read means that you are able to read freely without the possibility of being stopped because the material is inappropriate or challenges a belief that someone supports. If the prosecutor doesn't like the book, maybe he or she shouldn't read it but that does not mean that it should affect all because of certain people don't like it. But banning books takes the books off the shelves, taking even the slightest chance that those condemned books might be able to be read at all. Book censorship existed as early as the mid-seventeenth century and still continues to the present.One disturbing aspect of censorship is its power to deny students in one class or an entire school system the right to read particular texts that could benefit most in their studies but is taken away by the school system. English teachers in public schools always find themselves caught up in conflicts about what texts are best suited for the literature curriculum that the school provides them to the teacher. The question for schools and teachers often centers on