Banned book at my school! :D/:o/>:(

So, it was banned books week some week around now... lol. I don't care really which one, but the more I think about it, the more I realize that it is quite stupid...I mean the idea of banning books. And, also, we found out that there is one banned book at our school. A little hypocritical, eh? Considering that we had a day for banned books week...

Now, we all suffer from this insatiable curiosity. They cannot and will not tell us what the book is. A bit of irony there I think, but anyways... How do I figure out what this book is? Any ideas? Also, I'd like to figure out why this book is banned. I do know as a fact that this is the ONLY banned book, although some others have been challenged.

So, ideas anyone?

I don't know. Bribe the teachers. Why would they bother banning one book? Maybe it's full of violence. Maybe it's Lolita by Nabokov (and you'd be bored trying to read it). I mean, you can find any book outside of school. How do you know this for a fact? Sounds like those high school rumors...

Some books should just not be taught in schools.

#supportsubjectivebanning.

It's not a school rumor. They said it's old, like it's been banned for a long time. The teachers(Librarian, English teacher) said they're not supposed to talk about it. By banned for awhile, they said it was banned before there was a board or whatever, like an administrator just said "so be it." And, be it it was . I don't really think the teachers approve of it, and today one girl told me that the teacher said she had the book, and I could very well imagine that, considering she had to fight for us to be able read another book later in the year or something; she's very anti-censorship. But now that's just a random rumor! So, again any ideas?

Possibly Mein Kampf? Our school was very anti-censorship and wanted us to be able to read whatever we liked (for research purposes only, obviously), so we actually had a copy of it. However, considering there were a lot of students of German descent, it wasn't actually kept on the shelf so as not to cause any upset. But if you asked the librarian he would give it to you. It was weird.

Contextualization makes things awkward when they don't need to be. That's the reason books are banned in the first place. Subjective book banning doesn't need to happen in such an open society in which everything you could imagine is available at the click of a mouse, but the proper way to approach these things isn't by banning, but by doing what Stella's Librarian did!

Open-shelf publicity is much different than provision upon request.

As far as what Pengy mentioned, there's a huge difference between book banning for libraries and banning for curriculum. But what basis can you fight off of? Someone may motion to have Hamlet banned for the kiss between mother and son, or want to see Oedipus Rex taken off the shelves for incest. In society, opinions vary too much. People get offended, in turn to rash things, and then make mistakes. It's how the world works.

;.; This would make a phenomenal debate topic.

Exactly what does "banned" mean? Is the school prevented from stocking it in the library? Are students not permitted to read it on the school premises?
If you go to a public school in a democratic country where the freedom of speech is recognized, they cannot prevent you from reading said book, but they may refuse to stock it in the school library. Your next move? I would ask a teacher to tell me what the book was, or irritate one until they did. Then I would purchase several copies, distribute them to classmates, and make a point of reading it in school. I may even go so far as to start a book club to discuss it's literary value. Why? Because firstly, I'm a vindictive little tit, and secondly things like this make me irate to the extreme. Even if it's purely symbolic, I would go to such lengths to defend the freedom of speech and information.

Yes, this would make an interesting motion for a debate.
Penguin: Subjective book banning only in school,or in society as a whole?

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This is quite hilarious to me. Normally I'm the loud obnoxious kid trying to cause a fight and be a rebel! xD But really, we just wanted to know what the book was, but what Tr3x was saying does make sense. Personally, I believe that saying "we don't believe that you should be restricted on what you read," and then saying, "however you shouldn't write or read about things that are obviously criminal," is fairly hypocritical. <<-Not direct quotes, but more of assumptions to twist the story. :3 I mean banning a book because it's views are controversial or hiding it to stop people from being offended is stupid in a Utopian society. In this case upon request is best in modern society, but anyways... LOL. It's just dumb because what make's rape and robbery criminal as to free speech and democracy morale? That's my thought. Best to make your arguments extreme, eh?

Wow, I'm distracted. -.- All I want to know is how to find out what the book is. So far at this point, I think just being an irritating student to a not so caring teacher is the best idea . However, I really do think we should probably make a point to get it not banned. It's really hypocritical to the cause and if the teachers really believed in the whole anti-censorship they should be willing to risk their jobs and fight for it. Just don't be obnoxious, plus it really can't be that risky for them.

***I probably won't reread this post until somebody responds back to me, so beware of my raw and honest thoughts ***

We, being my friend and I, "bamboozled" my teacher, as she put it. She's a middle-school teacher, so she wasn't really told anything about it, but did know the name. We went to her and simply asked her the name of the book, and she told us. Then we told her that the other's(teachers) said the teachers weren't supposed to tell us. It was a fun moment. :3 She also said the teacher next door had a class set(not weird, but anyways). So then we asked her, but she wouldn't tell us about the class set.

The other weird thing is that, I said earlier, my teacher has a copy supposedly. And, what do you know, Right on the book shelf, 3 books away from TWISTED(Laurie Halse Anderson), however ironic(I'm reading it right now), is two copies of the book.

The book is:

Feed - M.T. Anderson