01-06-2022, 07:40 AM
(01-05-2022, 09:01 PM)HarleyDog Wrote: Why is it such a big deal if parents want to control material that is exposed to their kids in school? The parents do fund the school through their taxes so they should have a say so. Plus, it's their children attending. A person should be able to figure out their sexual attraction on their own without outside influence. They get enough pressure from their peers, school teachers, television and news sources trying to pollute their minds with personal opinions and agenda's.
I am not at all about banning books. But, as a parent, I wouldn't want my child to have access to books I disapprove.
Books help people think critically. They help people make informed decisions about the world we live in. Banning books is a way of saying "we want you to listen to us, we don't want you to be open to different ideas." Education should be about teaching our young people to think critically, and limiting what they have access to in a library is antithetical to that idea.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
