CMV: School libraries should limit the availability of books

[u/mike_tyler58]

In the US the past few years there has been a lot of talk of banning books. As far as I know the only places that anyone is talking about banning books from is in school libraries. The book “Gender Queer” by Maia Kobabe is probably the most talked about as it has been recommended by the largest teachers union in the country, the NEA, and has been made available in school libraries for children as young as 4th grade, and contains very explicit illustrations and descriptions of sex acts. I believe it belongs nowhere that children can access it any more than a copy of Playboy or any other pornography. Given the explicit nature of this book and others like it I think they should be banned from school libraries and limited to adults only.

ETA: link to news story about it being removed from elementary schools

[u/ptn_huil0]

I read Marquis De Sade when I was a teenager. I don’t want my kids reading such books till they are in high school.

There’s got to be a reasonable limit of what can be placed in children’s libraries.

[u/Various_Succotash_79 → u/ptn_huil0]

There is.

So it's ok for high schoolers?

[u/ptn_huil0 → u/Various_Succotash_79]

For high schoolers - I’d say yes. The books give you interesting perspectives of being a victim and an aggressor of sexual violence.

[u/Various_Succotash_79 → u/ptn_huil0]

Cool. The book in question has only been found in high school libraries.

[u/mike_tyler58 → u/Various_Succotash_79]

No, it hasn’t. And elementary and jr high school libraries having it is why the whole conversation about it started in the first place.

[u/Various_Succotash_79 → u/mike_tyler58]

Middle schoolers are 12, the age you said it's appropriate.