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In the 21st century in the United States, Republican lawmakers have proposed or enacted legislation to censor school curricula that taught about comprehensive sex education, [20] LGBTQ people, [21] higher-order thinking skills, [22] social justice, [23] sexism and racism, [24] and various left-wing political philosophies. [25]
To spank or not to spank? Psychologist Dr. Sheryl Ziegler weighs in on the psychological impact corporal punishment could have on your child. Corporal punishment is still being used in classrooms ...
PEN America, a free speech advocacy group, found that book bans nearly tripled during the 2023-2024 academic year with over 10,000 books banned in public schools.
The First Amendment protects the people to exercise their rights of free speech as well as the freedom of the press in journalistic practice. [12] Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1988 decision in Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier, schools been allowed to censor speech in student media for “legitimate pedagogical concern”. [1]
The school board is already stacked with people who support this kind of censorship. And I think for me, this experience of being banned is very remote. I am far from the frontlines of where this ...
This list of the most commonly challenged books in the United States refers to books sought to be removed or otherwise restricted from public access, typically from a library or a school curriculum. This list is primarily based on U.S. data gathered by the American Library Association 's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), which gathers data ...
Not everyone is onboard with banning phones in schools. Some of the most vocal opposition often comes from parents, who worry that not having access to a phone could make their kids less safe.But ...
Many K-12 school districts use Internet filters to block material deemed inappropriate for a school setting. [87] [88] The federal government leaves decisions about what to filter or block to local authorities. However, critics assert that such decisions should be made by a student's parents or guardian.