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PEN America, a free expression advocacy group, has tracked nearly 16,000 book ban attempts in public schools nationwide since 2021. In 2023 alone, the American Library Association (ALA) documented ...
The Things They Carried: Tim O'Brien: Violence, animal abuse, obscene language, and criticism of the Vietnam War 1990 34 65 — Thirteen Reasons Why: Jay Asher: Drugs/alcohol/smoking, sexually explicit, suicide, unsuited for age group 2007 3 — — This Book Is Gay: Juno Dawson: LGBTQIA+ content, provides sexual education 2014 53 — — This ...
It was one of 10 books the West Ada School District had removed from libraries earlier in the school year. Bub did not take the book. Jenkins dropped it at his feet and walked off the stage ...
The group previously documented 3,362 instances of book bans in the 2022–2023 school year. "With 10,000 school book bans and counting in the 2023-2024 school, we have to take stock of the harm ...
[123] [124] She thinks that celebrating Banned Books Week conflates issues of book censorship in a public library versus a school library, where actual cases of censorship are rather minimal. [124] Groups who generally challenge numerous books, such as Focus on the Family, often stand opposed to Banned Books Week, but that doesn’t mean ...
The rise in banned books during the 2023-'24 school year—nearly tripling from 3,362 bans PEN recorded the previous year—can be attributed partly to the singling out of books about romance and ...
Alabama's SBOE banned the teaching of concepts that impute fault, blame, a tendency to oppress others, or the need to feel guilt or anguish to persons solely because of their race or sex.” [6] Georgia's SBOE banned teaching that "indoctrinates" students. Florida's SBOE prohibited teaching about critical race theory or the 1619 Project. [6]
The story’s depiction of child abuse and sexual violence led to it being banned at a Southern California high school and elsewhere. (32 bans, 73 challenges) (32 bans, 73 challenges) 4.