““I’ll start,” she said. “Here we go. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. I feel like that’s on all the lists I read of banned books.”
There was 1984, The Handmaid’s Tale, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – books that have been challenged in schools across the country.”
No school board has “banned” any of these books. Rather they have limited books with sexual content – titles such as gender queer which the author himself stated is not age appropriate for young kids. A quick search for cuckoos nest shows
> No challenges have been reported to the American Library Assn. on “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” from California. But it was removed from public school libraries in Randolph, N.Y., and Alton, Okla., in 1975. A teacher in Idaho was fired, and the book was banned from the high school classroom in 1978
Florida also reduced books as part of the curriculum (there can only ever be so many) that are contraversial and not backed by experts – such as removing 1619 project from curricula. Note these books can be accessed in almost any other place / online. Just that they re no longer part of a curriculum.
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You guys really these books aren’t actually banned right.
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I’d like to offer an alternative viewpoint here:
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““I’ll start,” she said. “Here we go. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. I feel like that’s on all the lists I read of banned books.”
There was 1984, The Handmaid’s Tale, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – books that have been challenged in schools across the country.”
No school board has “banned” any of these books. Rather they have limited books with sexual content – titles such as gender queer which the author himself stated is not age appropriate for young kids. A quick search for cuckoos nest shows
> No challenges have been reported to the American Library Assn. on “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” from California. But it was removed from public school libraries in Randolph, N.Y., and Alton, Okla., in 1975. A teacher in Idaho was fired, and the book was banned from the high school classroom in 1978
Florida also reduced books as part of the curriculum (there can only ever be so many) that are contraversial and not backed by experts – such as removing 1619 project from curricula. Note these books can be accessed in almost any other place / online. Just that they re no longer part of a curriculum.
You guys really these books aren’t actually banned right.
The kids are alright.