School Library Books
Do government officials, such as a school board, have the right to restrict a student’s education in the school library?Do parents have the right to dictate their child’s education?New York, 1975.An activist group named Parents of New York United compiled a list of books they deemed offensive due to “anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and just plain filthy” speech (Pico, 1982 at 857). The school board stated, "[i]t is our duty, our moral obligation, to protect the children in our schools from this moral danger as surely as from physical and medical dangers."Students objected and…
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