Our Freedom To Read
Many rights are guaranteed to us or implied within our constitutional tradition. The right to read is one of these, and like the other rights it can be used wisely or foolishly. To deny the freedom of choice in fear that it may be unwisely used is to destroy the freedom itself. Book censorship should not be allowed because the right to read freely enables many students to expand their imaginations and knowledge, freedom of inquiry is essential to education in a democracy and teachers are trained to teach controversial material to an age-appropriate audience.American schools have been pressured to confine or deny students access to books considered inappropriate by some individual or group based on moral, political, religious, ethnic, or racial grounds for many years. Recently classics and modern novels have both been attacked and considered controversial or inappropriate for students to read. Most would-be book banners act with what they consider to be the highest motives --protecting themselves, their families and communities from perceived injustices and evil and preserving the values and ideals they would have the entire society embrace (Miner 21). The result, however, is always the denial of anoth
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Approximate Word count = 1012
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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