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ALL CENSORSHIP COVERAGE
The insidious of censoring books based on implied content.
A frequently challenged book club pick; insisting on the Pledge of Allegiance
Try these projects and games with your students on Banned Websites Awareness Day (September 26), which seeks to raise awareness of overly restrictive filtering of educational websites and to explore the impact on intellectual freedom.
Recommending books to rising sixth graders sparks controversy
Parent with Caldecott concerns, a librarian fears "Vincent and Theo" content issues (again), and an administrator who cracks down on students' rights: Pat Scales sets them straight.
One mother accuses a librarian of "stunting her daughter's intellectual growth," while another says lack of policing child's book choices gave her son nightmares.
Shiloh’s curse words; a visiting author’s objectionable language; complaints about "A Day No Pigs Would Die"
The Pat Scales Special Collections Room opened at the Carmichael Library on the campus of Scales's alma mater, the University of Montevallo in Montevallo, AL.
A controversial student poetry reading; controlling bookmobile offerings; questioning 'James and the Giant Peach.'
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