Book Ban Efforts Spread Across the U.S.

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That's the privilege of teachers and school administrations. They get to select which books are taught and available. And if they exclude a book, it isn't "banned", they merely didn't choose it. It's only when someone else meddles with their choices that it becomes banning and censorship.

(Where "no longer mandatory reading" gets reported as a "ban" by the news)

The Camp of the Saints isn't in school libraries or mandatory reading lists - shall the news breathlessly report that it is also banned?

In many of these cases, it is a literal ban.

> It's only when someone else meddles with their choices that it becomes banning and censorship.

That is exactly what this article is about. Legislators are making it a criminal offense for teachers to teach certain books.

From the article:

> "Such challenges have long been a staple of school board meetings, but it isn’t just their frequency that has changed, according to educators, librarians and free-speech advocates — it is also the tactics behind them and the venues where they play out. Conservative groups in particular, fueled by social media, are now pushing the challenges into statehouses, law enforcement and political races."

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