The effects of Book Banning
Book banning has been causing many problems to teachers, students and parents all across the country. However, sometimes book banning may not always be a negative thing either. Book banning in schools has been happening right now and has been causing a lot of problems on both sides of the topic. While book banning is overall a bad thing to do, There are several reasons why book banning can be a good thing.
For one thing, book banning in schools prevents kids from viewing sensitive topics that some parents may not feel are appropriate for their own kids. While sensitive topics can be a good thing to normalize, Certain topics like sex, pressure or death are very sensitive for certain people and can cause kids to feel uncomfortable in school. Schools and parents don’t want their kids to feel uncomfortable with the topics that they are learning at school. An example to prove this is, In the article pros and cons of book banning, parents of teenaged schoolchildren express anger when such texts are approved for study in school. This shows that parents don’t want their kids to listen to certain topics that are too sensitive for their kids and can cause someone to feel upset.
Another reason why there are positives to book banning is that it will prevent kids from reading things that are too mature for their age. If a kid reads about something very mature for their age like sex, drugs etc. It may cause kids to say or do things that are not appropriate for their age. An example to prove this is, in the article pros and cons of book banning, most of the books that have been censored due to content and the age level they were aimed at were mostly misjudgments about its content and message. While every kid may mature at different levels, sometimes schools have to just keep books in their libraries that are close to the appropriate age for the kids because schools can’t get books for all multiple age levels.
Another thing to consider is that it could prevent kids from having ideas that are not something they should be doing. An example to prove this is, in the article The Pros and cons of book banning, Sometimes, people are influenced by what they read or see. This quote proves that people can get influenced by bad behavior or other things that they should not do. While kids do need to learn right from wrong, Sometimes, people will get influenced by the way certain characters behave based on what they have been doing in the book.
While I do know that there are many negative effects to banning books, there are positives to doing that as well. When kids are prevented from seeing things that parents consider inappropriate for their children, It keeps the kids from seeing things that cause them trouble, seeing sensitive things, or things that are way to mature for them. When kids see things that are appropriate it won’t lead to as many problems.
References
Shares. “Pros and Cons of Book Banning.” Vision Launch Media, 15 Jan. 2017, visionlaunch.com/pros-cons-book-banning/.
Counterintuitive Fall 2024 
here’s what I want you to look at, I would like for you to give me feedback on my conclusion paragraph and my second to last paragraph.
Your sentences sound like reasonable claims, RebelPilot, but they’re extremely vague. You probably think every reader will understand what you mean, but you have a larger obligation as the writer to make your claims very clear.
—”it” is unclear. We don’t know what could prevent kids from having ideas.
—ideas “that are not something they should be doing” is equally unclear. You could mean anything from shoplifting to being mean to someone else to dating someone of the same sex.
—If you’re going to name an article in your text, RP, you need to put the title into quotation marks.
—If the only thing the article says is that “people are influenced by what they read or see,” it’s not a very valuable source.
—Of course people are influenced by what they read. The point of reading is to be influenced. Influence is completely neutral. Being influenced by an author to give my money to charity is hardly a reason to ban the book.
—Well, it doesn’t PROVE anything.
—But if it demonstrates something, it only suggests that reading is influential. That doesn’t RULE OUT bad behavior, but it doesn’t suggest it, either.
—I have the same reactions to this sentence as to the others. It’s too vague to be a strong argument for anything. “the way certain characters behave” could mean anything, and so could “what they have been doing in the book.”
—You might misunderstand the nature of a Rebuttal argument, RebelPilot.
—You don’t need to DEFEND the “opposition point of view.” You PRESENT the opposition point of view fairly and then refute it.
—You’re right, I guess, although “things that cause them trouble” could mean anything.
—Either way, your job is to convince your readers that the book bans you object to are NOT THOSE that protect kids from truly dangerous material.
—Once again, “things that are appropriate” is the ENTIRE POINT of your overall research project. You aren’t making a clear argument if we don’t know what you mean by “appropriate.”
I hope this is helpful, RebelPilot.
I kind of misunderstood the assignment a little bit.