Censorship in Schools

Today a lot of schools use Censorship. When I use to go to school in Park City we read a book in which talked about sex, but the teachers blacked out words and phrases making the book kind of boring because in some parts you didn’t understand what had happened why were people all the sudden mad? Why did they brake up? Personally I believe that teachers should be able to teach whatever book they want to teach, if it relates to our topic or if it’s a good lesson that will teach us some important characters we need in life. Books can teach us a lot of things, and seen things happen to others decreases the chances of teens doing such things because they don t like the consequences that they read happened to the character in the book.

Another reason it’s because in high school students should be mature enough to get through the book without making comments or jokes. I feel that the censorship has to do a lot with that. Those students don’t take books serious sometimes. I remember this one kid in class kept laughing at things that were not funny. Like when a Character in the book would hit or call the other character mean names he would laugh, so he got kicked out out of class. I remember talking to him about it and he said that he didn’t laugh he chuckled still laughing about the situation. But he should have known better to have more respect not just for the teacher but for all the other students that are actually trying to understand the meaning of the book.

Teachers are smart enough to not read a book that talks about sex and drugs to a 3rd class. Parents should know that books like Breathing Under Water or Heroine the Road to Hell aren’t about drugs, sex or violence, because these thing happen in the real world they’re about the reasons behind them, the lesson that it has taught you about the consequences.