Student runs "Illegal Library" from School Locker

[Suu]

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AoCt3NHGwM8BxD2H1669H3_ty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20090305151758AA7dWwd

Let me explain.

I go to a private school that is rather strict. Recently, the principal and school teacher council released a (very long) list of books we're not allowed to read. I was absolutely appalled, because a large number of the books were classics and others that are my favorites. One of my personal favorites, The Catcher in the Rye, was on the list, so I decided to bring it to school to see if I would really get in trouble. Well... I did but not too much. Then (surprise!) a boy in my English class asked if he could borrow the book, because he heard it was very good AND it was banned! This happened a lot and my locker got to overflowing with the banned books, so I decided to put the unoccupied locker next to me to a good use. I now have 62 books in that locker, about half of what was on the list. I took care only to bring the books with literary quality. Some of these books are:

>The Perks of Being a Wallflower
>His Dark Materials trilogy
>Sabriel
>The Canterbury Tales
>Candide
>The Divine Comedy
>Paradise Lost
>The Godfather
>Mort
>Interview with the Vampire
>The Hunger Games
>The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
>A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
>Animal Farm
>The Witches
>Shade's Children
>The Evolution of Man
> the Holy Qu'ran
... and lots more.

Anyway, I now operate a little mini-library that no one has access to but myself. Practically a real library, because I keep an inventory log and give people due dates and everything. I would be in so much trouble if I got caught, but I think it's the right thing to do because before I started, almost no kid at school but myself took an active interest in reading! Now not only are all the kids reading the banned books, but go out of their way to read anything they can get their hands on. So I'm doing a good thing, right? Oh, and since you're probably wondering "Why can't you just go to a local library and check out the books?" most of the kids are too chicken or their parents won't let them but the books. I think that people should have open minds. Most of the books were banned because they contained information that opposed Catholisism. I limit my 'library' to only the sophmores, juniors and seniors just in case so you can't say I'm exposing young people to materiel they're not mature enough for. But is what I'm doing wrong because parents and teachers don't know about it and might not like it, or is it a good thing because I am starting appreciation of the classics and truly good novels (Not just fad novels like Twilight) in my generation?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

That kid is AWESOME. Doomed to get busted, but awesome.

[Doktor Howl]

I am both impressed with the kid's reading habits, and horrormirthed at what the school banned.

And you know what?  There's worse reasons to be busted than to be distributing BANNED BOOKS.

[Doktor Howl]

WAIT.

How the fuck did Terry Pratchett get banned?   

[LMNO]

Mort visits many different realms and planes.  Hell is included.  Also, sorcery and necromancy.

[Adios]

WAIT.

How the fuck did Terry Pratchett get banned?   

Because common sense was banned first. These things only make sense if you study them in the correct order.

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

I'm presuming sorcery is the reasoning behind "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"?

That is so funny, my son is a freshman this year and some of those books are on his required list for this year.

[Adios]

More books I have:
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Slaughterhouse-5
Lord of the Flies
Bridge to Terabithia
Catch-22
East of Eden
The Brothers Grimm Unabridged Fairytales.
...the list goes on.

3 years ago
Twilight is banned also, but I don't want that polluting my library.

3 years ago
As for getting the press involved, reporters are not allowed on campus. Besides, my parents would be so mad if they found out I was doing this.

3 years ago

[AFK]

Why are schools still banning books?  Forget the philosophical debate, just thinking about it practically.  

I mean, when they all sat down at the table to put together this policy did every single adult have spontaneous amnesia and forget that the internet exists?  

[Doktor Howl]

Why are schools still banning books?  Forget the philosophical debate, just thinking about it practically.  

I mean, when they all sat down at the table to put together this policy did every single adult have spontaneous amnesia and forget that the internet exists?  

To show the kids who the boss is, of course.  To teach them how to fit seamlessly into the 21st Century machine.

[Jenne]

Am I right in reading that this is a 3 year old post? (nothing wrong with that, I was just wondering where the fuck this was so I could avoid this place like the plague)

This kid is teh awesomesauce supremo.  Hope they skated through and didn't get caught...though it'd definitely be for a worthy cause.

[Cramulus]

maybe it's like a reverse psychology / streissand effect thing.

tell kids "DON'T YOU DARE READ CATCHER IN THE RYE"
                      /
         


kids are like "FUCK YOU WE'RE GONNA READ IT ANYWAY"
                      /
           

[Doktor Howl]

A quote comes to mind.

"As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy."
- Christopher Dawson

[Freeky]

WAIT.

How the fuck did Terry Pratchett get banned?   

That is the very first thing that popped into my head, right before "What, CANTERBURY TALES is banned?!" 

[Suu]

There's a lot of sex in the Canterbury Tales. A lot of hot steamy if not somewhat graphic medieval sex.


...But still. I had to read it in 12th grade, in my shitty Florida public high school.