In other places, students' names are tagged, at parental request, for restricted use of certain library materials. To Kill a Mockingbird , and Alice Walker's The Color Purple . The problem is obvious. Censors want to control the minds of the young. They are fearful of the educational system because students who read learn to think.
Thinkers learn to see.
Those who see often question. The answer is the classroom. As educators, we cannot, for the sake of the students, allow ourselves to be bullied into diluting the curriculum into superficial facts. We must talk about the principles of intellectual freedom. We must challenge students to think about the intent of our forefathers when they wrote the Bill of Rights.