Comments on: The Quick 10: 10 Classic Books That Have Been Banned

By: Nichole

Nichole — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:21:00 +0000

can you believe that the dictionary of american slang was banned for having 150 pages of “dirty” things? wow, its so gay.

By: Rosie

Rosie — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:42:49 +0000

I had no idea those books had been banned. I read more than half of those in high school, less than ten years ago.

By: Ashliegh

Ashliegh — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:18:32 +0000

Flowers for Algernon! By far one of the greatest books I have ever read for school. Also, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Native Son, and Slaughterhouse Five. My theme for my AP English class as a junior, was on censorship, and I’m so glad!

By: Miss Nae

Miss Nae — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:35:47 +0000

Wasn’t Roots banned?

By: Leah

Leah — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:09:14 +0000

The Giver was banned in California? Who knew? We read it here in elementary school. And High School.
I’m surprised the Lorax was banned and not the Butter Battle Book.

By: Reese

Reese — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 03:22:06 +0000

The Great Gatsby!

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 31 May 2008 21:39:14 +0000

I read The Catcher in the Rye as a high school sophomore in Mississippi in the early 90’s. My English teacher had all her honors classes write a paper entitled “The Significance of the ‘F’-word in The Catcher in the Rye“. Amazingly she got away with this for well over a decade til a parent of a student two classes behind mine complained and the school district forced her to stop having students write on the topic (before that students could opt out of writing on it if their parent’s objected).

And Lisa, whether teachers can be openly religious in public schools is actually not clearly defined in most jurisdictions. Here in Georgia a teacher cannot engage in active proselytization but passive evidence of faith is not outright prohibited.

By: Angie

Angie — Sat, 31 May 2008 14:43:00 +0000

My kids are in middle school in a Catholic School in Colorado. They have read The Giver, Call of the Wild, and Fahrenheit 451, and Killer Angels. This summer they are reading Robinson Crusoe, Of Mice and Men, and Fallen Angels. We also read the Bible at school. Oh, rebel on!

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sat, 31 May 2008 14:01:15 +0000

The Bible is absolutely not forbidden in schools, as one post suggests. Students are free to read it in school, discuss it in school, write about it in their school papers, cite it as a reference when appropriate, etc. There seems to be a lot of misconception about “separation of church and state.” Many people seem to believe that religion is not allowed in school AT ALL. All “separation of church and state” means is that schools and teachers (who operate as agents of the state) must not espouse a particular religious belief, or appear to be doing so. Students are free to practice any religion they choose and discuss their religious beliefs in appropriate ways and at appropriate times during school.

By: olal

olal — Sat, 31 May 2008 13:45:45 +0000

hey my comment was not posted, not once nor twice as you stated