Persuasive Essay On Perks Of Being A Wallflower

By banning books, school administrators take away the right to choose what book a child or parent might want to read. Every parent has the right to guide his or her own child's reading, but no adult should have the right to tell other parents what their child may or may not read.
"Far more Pasco kids will now read that book than ever would have read it if it had been assigned by their teachers," said Colete Bancroft, on the topic of a book, Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, being banned from Pasco County school libraries. She continues, "Making a chapter, or an entire book, forbidden fruit is a much more effective way to get kids to read it than making it homework." This is true. Whenever a child's mother tells the child to not
read this book, the child will most likely want to read it even more than before. One may argue that schools have to respect what students’ parents say, but students and parents should have the liberty to read what they want to read.
“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird are no strangers to the American Library Association's most banned books list, nor are they unfamiliar to the millions of American teenagers who read them each year as part of their schools' curricula.
The fight over whether these books remain valuable teaching tools decades, even a century, after publication is longstanding and complex. How should schools approach such material, if at all?” says Christina Beck. She says the reason the fight rages on is because a child’s parent complained about racial slurs. But most YA books will have things like that. Most of the time, parents complain about YA books that include issues like rape, sexual abuse, racial slurs, and inappropriate language. Society will have things like this. It’s in the book because it’s in real life. Books that honestly approach these topics can teach children things in a safe way that saves them the pain of learning through personal experience. A child could want to be like their role model, but the role model isn’t always right. This can teach the children bad things. However, it’s in the book for a reason. Sex, cussing, and abuse are all things that happen in real life; books provide a less painful and a better way to learn about the bad things in life, and prevents the child from having to experience it the hard
way.
"Books being banned is not the problem in schools; rather the problem is the small view of the world that fails when it is challenged by a new perspective on the world. To resort to an archaic and inefficient solution to a nonexistent problem is a waste of time and administrative resources because kids are going to do what they want regardless of their parents' or school administrators' expectations," says Adriana Lopez. Again, one may argue that schools must respect the parent’s wants for their child; however, you know that the child is going to just going to do it anyway, so why bother banning it? It would be a waste of time to go through all that paperwork just to have kids read it. If you don’t want to pollute their minds, don’t ban the book; just don’t mention it, and they won’t give it another thought.
Banned books are wrong and you are putting limits on a child’s imagination by doing so. No parent has the right to control what other children want to read. Thusly, by banning books, administrators take the right for children and parents to read what they want.