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> I believe there is no book that should be banned from being used by a teacher for instruction

This is an insane opinion. In the same way, I care about what movies, music, YouTube videos my children consume because they all can have a massive impact on a child's development.

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When we talk about books in school we are talking about books from mainstream publishers, distributed by educational distributors, and purchased by career librarians.

There are zero such books that can be compared to the lot of things you are trying to compare them to.

OP posted a super short 2 sentence post and yet you managed to take that out of context and twist it into the exact opposite of what they meant. Incredible. I don't think OP is the one with the insane opinions.

OP posted a comment that said they don't think there's anything off limit, which is the natural conclusion.

Some things should not be shown to children. this should not be a controversial topic.

Find a book in a public school library that should not be shown to children, that’s so horrible it will warp minds.

Is it conceivable that some librarian went off their meds and put a pornographic manga title on the shelf? Yea. But what we are talking about are books that are selected by educators getting banned because they represent ideas that small minds are threatened by.

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