School Censorship is Detrimental to Education

Censorship at school does not contribute to the education of Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, Harper Lee, Maya Angelou. What are these writers sharing? Of course, they are all great American writers, but there are others. They are all "forbidden". Review It is the Forbidden City. At least one author has not read this book. All of these are excellent literary works and should be an important part of the high school curriculum. Reviewing books by schools does not contribute to the development of high school students' education.

In many cases, censorship related to books will be considered, but censorship at schools and school libraries is becoming increasingly stringent. Many students, teachers, and school librarians are annoyed when they notice that a legitimate educational website is blocked by filtering software installed in school. Filtering websites may hurt the next generation digital citizens. Students must develop their skills and evaluate information from all kinds of sources in various formats including the Internet. Relying on filters alone does not teach how to become a savvy search engineer for young citizens or how to evaluate the accuracy of information.

Censorship of schools is a complex situation, as most of the variables involved affect children's way of learning and teaching. Censoring of schools usually exists in the form of deletion, manipulation, or learning process of teaching materials. These teaching materials may include things that seems to be often inappropriate for officials or guardians for our children, such as teaching nude and unpleasant themes such as evolution and creation. In most cases, American school censorship tends to focus on social and religious problems, many of which are questioned as controversial issues. In other countries, politics places religion as the center of censorship and the criticism of the government has been reviewed. But our censorship is often not in the form of a government but in the form of parents whose children do not want to be exposed to a world view other than themselves.