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Censorship in Public Schools
Title: Censorship in Public Schools
Category: Law & Government / Law Issues
Details: Words: 1663 | Pages: 7.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Censorship in Public Schools
-A principal in a California high school bans five books written by Richard Brautigan
because he thinks they might contain 'obscenities or offensive sexual references' (Berger
59).
-A Vermont high school librarian is forced to resign because she fought the school
board's decision to remove Richard Price's The Wanderers, and to 'restrict' the use of
Stephen King's Carrie and Patrick Mann's Dog Day Afternoon (Jones 33).
-An Indiana school board takes action that leads to the burning …showed first 75 words of 1663 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1663 total…the true obscenities
of the world (poverty, hunger, war) will be what we shall strive to censor.
Works Cited
Berger, Melvin. Censorship. New York: Franklin Watts, 1982.
Jones, Frances M. Defusing Censorship: The Librarian's Guide to Handling Censorship
Conflicts. Phoenix: The Oryx Press, 1983.
Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1945.
Woods, L.B. A Decade of Censorship in America: The Threat to Classrooms and
Libraries. London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1979.
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