https://padlet.com/aaharris19/tsmmgvh7dlvn en-us 2017-04-10 16:54:12 UTC 2025-11-14 23:59:03 UTC hello@padlet.com aaharris19 https://padlet.com/aaharris19/tsmmgvh7dlvn/wish/165725488 http://www.punchnels.com/2014/09/18/10-reasons-for-banning-books-and-5-much-better-reasons-not-to/]]> 2017-04-10 16:55:47 UTC https://padlet.com/aaharris19/tsmmgvh7dlvn/wish/165725488 aaharris19 https://padlet.com/aaharris19/tsmmgvh7dlvn/wish/165725580  Fortunately, committed librarians, teachers, parents, students, and other individuals have risen to these challenges with entreaties of their own, and most challenges never result in a ban. But when they do? It’s usually for predictable reasons. ]]> 2017-04-10 16:56:10 UTC https://padlet.com/aaharris19/tsmmgvh7dlvn/wish/165725580 aaharris19 https://padlet.com/aaharris19/tsmmgvh7dlvn/wish/165725667  Scores of books, from To Kill a Mockingbird to The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, have been banned for exploring racial themes or depicting racism directed at various groups of people. The N-word is, in fact, a one-way ticket to book bonfires ]]> 2017-04-10 16:56:29 UTC https://padlet.com/aaharris19/tsmmgvh7dlvn/wish/165725667 aaharris19 https://padlet.com/aaharris19/tsmmgvh7dlvn/wish/165725696 Unless a book contains strictly conventional, conservative values and conduct, it has probably been banned somewhere, at some point—but more likely many places, many times. So-called alternative lifestyles and “deviant” behaviors that prompt libraries, schools, and businesses to ban books include drug use, fornication, and homosexuality. ]]> 2017-04-10 16:56:37 UTC https://padlet.com/aaharris19/tsmmgvh7dlvn/wish/165725696 aaharris19 https://padlet.com/aaharris19/tsmmgvh7dlvn/wish/165725756 In 1977, the Ku Klux Klan—yes, that Ku Klux Klan—took moral issue (!) with Of Mice and Men for its profanity and demanded the book be a) removed from school libraries in South Carolina, and b) burned. ]]> 2017-04-10 16:56:52 UTC https://padlet.com/aaharris19/tsmmgvh7dlvn/wish/165725756 aaharris19 https://padlet.com/aaharris19/tsmmgvh7dlvn/wish/165725791 Books should be banned because they promote racism.]]> 2017-04-10 16:57:02 UTC https://padlet.com/aaharris19/tsmmgvh7dlvn/wish/165725791 aaharris19 https://padlet.com/aaharris19/tsmmgvh7dlvn/wish/165725838 Books should be banned because they promote violence.]]> 2017-04-10 16:57:12 UTC https://padlet.com/aaharris19/tsmmgvh7dlvn/wish/165725838 aaharris19 https://padlet.com/aaharris19/tsmmgvh7dlvn/wish/165725910 Books should be banned because they promote horrible behavior that is not acceptable.]]> 2017-04-10 16:57:25 UTC https://padlet.com/aaharris19/tsmmgvh7dlvn/wish/165725910 aaharris19 https://padlet.com/aaharris19/tsmmgvh7dlvn/wish/165725957 Books should be banned because they promote groups such as the "Ku Klux Klan."]]> 2017-04-10 16:57:35 UTC https://padlet.com/aaharris19/tsmmgvh7dlvn/wish/165725957 aaharris19 https://padlet.com/aaharris19/tsmmgvh7dlvn/wish/165726012 Books should be banned because they show children that it is okay to treat others horribly just because of their color, and race.]]> 2017-04-10 16:57:45 UTC https://padlet.com/aaharris19/tsmmgvh7dlvn/wish/165726012 aaharris19 https://padlet.com/aaharris19/tsmmgvh7dlvn/wish/165726117 Books should be banned because they promote the idea that violence will always solve your problems and that it is okay to use violence every time you are in a situation.]]> 2017-04-10 16:58:06 UTC https://padlet.com/aaharris19/tsmmgvh7dlvn/wish/165726117 aaharris19 https://padlet.com/aaharris19/tsmmgvh7dlvn/wish/165726186 Books should be banned because they contain scenes of children misbehaving so horribly and never getting into trouble for it and sowing the reader that they can do the same thing with no consequences.]]> 2017-04-10 16:58:20 UTC https://padlet.com/aaharris19/tsmmgvh7dlvn/wish/165726186 aaharris19 https://padlet.com/aaharris19/tsmmgvh7dlvn/wish/165726232 Books should be banned because they promote groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and show what the group does without he thought that the reader my be too immature to hear about those events.]]> 2017-04-10 16:58:29 UTC https://padlet.com/aaharris19/tsmmgvh7dlvn/wish/165726232