Banning books in schools? This only makes sense when you look at schools for what they really are: indoctrination camps. 😔
The move to ban books in US schools is eerily similar to the plot in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.
I consider it a 🚩that a certain political movement would go out of its way to create a more uneducated and underexposed populace.
It makes me sad that a younger generation may lose the opportunity to be exposed to new ideas or ways of life not easily accessible to them due to their upbringing.
Growing up in strict immigrant, religious household in the Deep South, I would have grown up to be a close-minded adult with very little desire to leave my small suburban town if not for the books that I read from my school library.
Here the list of the 11 most banned books in US schools 2022-2023 according to PEN America:
https://pen.org/banned-books-list-fall-2022/
Here’s the exhaustive list:
https://pen.org/2023-banned-book-list/
Buy them, read them, and share them.
Stockpile books that same way you stack sats.
Discussion
Depends on where you go to school…for middle school and high school I attended an art school that had an excellent reputation nationwide (schools like Yale and Princeton sent college admissions every year for recruitment) and where individuality and creativity were celebrated and encouraged in the students. My parents sent me there for the academics (I was in the math and science program), but it gave me an opposite to be exposed to a lot of things that I would not have learned about at the public school that I was zoned for, which actually was one of the better school districts in our state.