Delaware lawmakers have introduced a measure to protect books from being banned based on partisan, ideological or religious disapproval. What should be included in the framework to challenge a book found at a school or library?
Books should be available but should have restrictions, especially in schools. Whether that restriction is religious or due to age, parents need to consent to what is being taught in schools. Educators and teachers have taken it upon themselves to teach things that parents object to. — John Drennen
In our public libraries, no books should be banned. In bookstores or online, no banning. But, in schools, all books offered to students should be age-appropriate. So, obviously, a book written for high school students should not be in an elementary school library. — Denise Bella
Books should not be banned, but the responsibility for who should have access to titles classified as “age-appropriate” shouldn’t rest in the hands of a librarian, who may or may not have his/her own personal agenda to promote. — Dennis Kirkwood
Of course not. The people banning books have never been the good guys. — Stephanie Hart
For starters, nothing has been banned. The suitability of these books for children has been questioned. For finishers, if a debated book is suitable for a certain use (in a school library or as part of the curriculum), others can’t be rejected. I’m thinking specifically of the Bible. — Charles Miller
I don’t think certain books should be in schools. If parents want those kind of books for their children, then they need to buy them for home. Public libraries — that’s a whole different thing. — Bobbi Costello
Absolutely not. Books should not be banned. — Nicole Alvarez
Why don’t we provide our schools with the funding they need to each have a librarian? A librarian will have the actual education and training needed to determine age-appropriate materials for our children. No book-banning law is necessary. Just good ol’ expertise in action. — Claire Spadaro Stanley
Schools, yes. Public libraries, no. — Richard Kerchevall
As soon as kids find out a book is banned, they can’t wait to read it. — Sally Stewart
Let parents decide what their children should and shouldn’t read, not school boards or the general public! — Margaret Mcdermott
I would find it hard to believe that anyone actually believes in banning books. What is more at issue is the indoctrination of children to the ideology of specific lines of thinking, which may or may not be accepted by the general public. As with most educational tools, parents should have the right to provide input on their children’s education. No doubt there are books some may consider inappropriate for young children. — Ellen Hart Richardson
No. Books should not be banned from state libraries. As far as schools, they should only have age-appropriate reading materials. The kindergarten kids don’t need books about gender changing or sex. Let the parents decide what and when they want to tell their kids about it. — Tiffany Rumbley
Banning books is never the answer. Kids don’t need to be prevented from having access to information. They need help navigating information, thinking critically and understanding context. When teachers, librarians and parents accompany children in reading, it strengthens kids. It’s less about books themselves than about building the skills to learn, discern, understand, think and choose. Let them read! — Kristin Froehlich
There is worse content on TV, on the internet, in video games and in popular music. No books should be banned. — Peg Stewart
No, but it should be a school district’s decision what books are in the library. — Clint Brothers
The districts are the ones allowing inappropriate materials in the schools. The parents need to have a say in this. — Stephen Jackson
Is it age-appropriate for the reader? I don’t know if this makes sense, but could you have age-appropriate areas in libraries and bookstores? And parents should be involved in their kids’ lives, but let them grow and ask questions and be there for them with the honest truth. We can agree to disagree and still be neighbors. Just saying. — Willie Preacher
What happened to the truth? Not a single book has been “banned” in America. What has happened is that the voting public is demanding, against the radical leftist teachers unions, that their children be educated rather than indoctrinated. That, just like movies did years ago, materials should, at the very least, be age-appropriate. The fact that Delaware has a congressional representative with gender dysphoria and a legislature that is concerned with teaching transsexual behavior to kindergarten students shows just how far politicians have strayed from their constituents. — George Roof
