I know this is happening nation wide but I was hoping Minnesota would be except from this. I remember my high school library had a read a banned book section. It highlighted books that were banned for some reason in their history and encouraged people to read them. I hope they continue in that fashion to spread ideas instead of repressing them
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The American Library Association maintains a list of the 100 most banned books. When our kids were growing up we found almost everything we read to them on that list. Nobody bothers to ban books that don't make people think and challenge authority in some way.
Thanks for the list, here's a special section to encourage kids to read these banned books.
lol, "Lolita" is on that list. I guarantee not one parent requesting removal of that book has actually read it, and doubt any of the students have, either. Russian literature is not what one would call "easy reading".