Is Harry Potter Evil? Censorship and Book Banning in Schools
Sunday September 13, 2009
Censorship and banned books has long been a subject of controversy in schools. Everything from Huckleberry Finn to Harry Potter has been the subject of censorship in middle and high schools around the nation. The important questions that need to be answered include what needs to be censored, why and who decides.
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I just put this comment on another blog, but it fits here too. (copying and pasting) “The biggest disagreement I have over book bans is knowledge. Children have a right to knowledge. Even if parents feels that their children are to young for that knowledge. The next biggest argument I have is banning a book will NOT prevent a child from reading that book. My grandmother banned my mom from reading books that she considered racy. That didn’t stop my mom though. She just checked the books out from the library in secret. To this day my grandma still doesn’t know the truth. My cousin’s parents banned her from the Harry Potter books. That did not stop her. She borrowed them from her friends. If you want your kids to read books in secret then go ahead. BAN them, but that will not stop them from reading the books that you consider ‘bad’. Our country was founded on the basis of free speech and our youth should not have to read in secret. Furthermore, I would rather know that my child is reading a book, and asking questions about it to me (or to someone teaching the book), than to say his or her peers who may or may not understand the book’s message.”