Censorship in Public Schools

-A principal in a California high school bans five books written by Richard Brautigan
because he thinks they might contain 'obscenities or offensive sexual references' (Berger
59).
-A Vermont high school librarian is forced to resign because she fought the school
board's decision to remove Richard Price's The Wanderers, and to 'restrict' the use of
Stephen King's Carrie and Patrick Mann's Dog Day Afternoon (Jones 33).
-An Indiana school board takes action that leads to the burning of many copies of a
textbook that deals with drugs and the sexual behavior of teenagers (Berger 61).
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