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“Now, I've only had experiences of banning in grammer school and not in highschool.” This is not banning, but censorship. Some materials can be deemed inappropriate for some people according to age. Just because you weren’t given access to certain materials when you were 12 doesn’t mean that those materials have been banned. Educators should have the ability to distinguish between material that is productive and counter-productive to basic indoctrination and censor that which is counter. In education, the educator must always weigh the free exchange of ideas with the ability of the student to freely exchange. You can’t discuss trigonometry, if you don’t know at least the basics of geometry and algebra. Just because your principle won’t allow you take trig before algebra, doesn’t mean your principle is banning trig! An educator may deem Tolkien inappropriate reading for a third grader. That’s simply censorship, not banning.
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You do bring up a good point but it was banning and not censorship. If it was censroship, it would be open for eighth-graders to read and not third graders, but it was banning because it was not open for anyone to read. If you are saying that it was censorship because it was banned in grammer school but not in highschool, then look at it from a different perspective. Don't look at the whole picture, focus more on grammer school and look at it from a smaller scale. Even if it were censored, you could still read some of it or at least some people could read it. If something is banned in a school, it is only in that school. Outside of school, at your home you probably could read lotr, because its not banned outside of school.