CENSORSHIP IN SCHOOL

The Role of Censorship in School by Ken Petress

The Role of Censorship in School by Ken Petress

Ken Petress in the article "The role of censorship in school" discusses the foreseeable confronts and numerous complications in allowing or disallowing censorship in schools. The article deals with the several examples of censorship decisions and the impact of the final dispositions

Summary

It is remarkable how self-censorship by textbook publishers and American school tests ensure that the materials are "politically correct" and are acquired by the educational authorities of each state

Among the topics to be avoided are: trademarks, conflicts with authority, people, controversial, crime, drunk, people who smoke or take drugs, get fat or junk foods. Some assessment tests should be added to avoid emotionally sensitive issues such as abortion, addiction, animal abuse, assisted suicide, being fired, cancer, disasters, child abuse, death, disobedience of children, homosexuality, paganism, pregnancy, religion, sexuality, violence, war, witchcraft, etc.

Educated young children are among one of the most significant dream of U.S. since the early days of nation. Censorship is one of the major problems which not only management of schools is facing but also it is creating problems for the parents as well as the regulatory bodies. The main reason regarding censorship is whether to allow this in an environment where young children come to seek education or should ignore it. It has been argued several times that censorship in not valid in all environments. It is only allowed in those environments where censorship is the only solution left to deal with the problems associated with the incontestable physical and social harmful outcomes for the each element of the school. When guardians and assigned teachers remain involved with the children to identify that what they have incurred and learnt after ignoring censorship in schools, it has been ...