Why no passion in public schools for FREE SPEECH for these authors ?

 

I think it more " progressive " to encourage the " Sense of Wonder " in kids , what Albert Einstein called " holy curiosity ". They are already over-stimulated by a hyper-sexual entertainment industry. I suspect the old pre-Vatican II Catholic Baltimore Catechism is better guide to life and love than this bold , " grooming " ( ? ) trash ? But how many books of high literary quality are already conspicuously absent from YOUNG ADULT book shelves in our public libraries ? Why , for example , should Mark Twain's classic " growing up " in the Old South book , " Huckleberry Finn " be off limits for high school students ?

[Why 'To Kill a Mockingbird' Keeps Getting Banned - HISTORYhttps://www.history.com › news › why-to-kill-a-mockin...

Oct 16, 2017 — A school board's decision to remove To Kill a Mockingbird from eighth grade curriculums in Biloxi, Mississippi, is the latest in a long line ...]

BANNED: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - PBShttps://www.pbs.org › americanexperience › features

Just a month after its publication, librarians in Concord, Massachusetts deemed it “trash” and “suitable only for the slums.”