“Roughly one-third of students are in favor of banning controversial books”

Re:“Roughly one-third of students are in favor of banning co... by jimbob45 on Saturday June 19, 2021 @02:14PM (#27562873)

If you live in any moderately large sized city, you’re just going to get your books from the public library anyway. No one used the school library at our school and we were fairly large and fairly successful.

If it’s in class, 99% of the kids were going to SparkNotes whatever book they ended up getting anyway.

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Re:“Roughly one-third of students are in favor of banning co... by spiderice on Saturday June 19, 2021 @02:18PM (#27562904)

Not entirely sure you can claim that most university libraries go unused just because yours did.

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Re:“Roughly one-third of students are in favor of banning co... by jimbob45 on Saturday June 19, 2021 @02:22PM (#27562949)

Wait, I was talking about high school. Do universities ban books too? How does that make sense?

And my point is that public libraries are simply better stocked than high school libraries to the point of making high school libraries obsolete.

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Re:“Roughly one-third of students are in favor of banning co... by thayne on Saturday June 19, 2021 @02:28PM (#27563015)

The paper referenced in the original tweet was about banning books from a university library.

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