RedFive said:

My high school English teacher had her classes read The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, and after a few weeks, a few of the other teachers and parents complained about a rape scene in the book. So, knee-jerk as usual, the school made her stop teaching it and banned it from the district, even though her students (who usually loathed reading anything) loved it!

But my teacher was awesome - she didn't give up. She fought the censorship, and after going a long way, the State of Ohio came in and told the school they weren't allowed to tell her she couldn't teach it anymore, and that if anyone had any objections they would have to find another teacher. She won an Intellectual Freedom Award for it in 2006.

Badass.

The Kite Runner is a great book too, by the way.

Hmm... go personal freedom? For a public servant?

It's not censorship if customers (the students and parents) request their employees (the teachers) to not require the reading of material they find offensive. That's just business as usual. But it doesn't surprise me the government would come in and tell the parents they have no rights in the schools. That too, unfortunately, is business as usual.

Now, if they said that no students could read the book, or said that no one could discuss the book in class... that would be different and something much closer to censorship.

That and the political doublestandards- if it was anti liberal values in any sense, this would have gone down 100% differently.