Some books are banned by certain states or school boards for their content which they deem inappropriate for children of a certain age. But banning books just doesn’t seem like the best solution. Perhaps, a proposal by the Cobb County school superintendent Chris Ragsdale could be a better compromise. By creating a rating system similar to that being used for films – G, PG, PG-13, etc. – Ragsdale hopes that it can provide a guide for parents and schools to know whether books contain language, scenes, or concepts that would require their supervision when their children read it.
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However, there are some librarians and booksellers who say that such a system would be impractical and expensive. Given that there are millions of books being published each year, it would be an arduous amount of work to try and stamp each one with a rating. Furthermore, they argue that nobody should be in a position to determine or even dictate what people should be reading or not. One may even push the envelope a little further to the extreme and say that this is a way of policing knowledge and information, and chipping away at people’s freedom to choose what they want to consume or not.
One can understand where they might be coming from, but it might even be unconstitutional as Texas, which wanted to pass a similar law, is awaiting the decision from a federal court which blocked the law from taking effect.
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