People who remove books from libraries are scared pitiful people.

People who claim that removing some books from a library is akin to banning or will have any affect on the actual dissemination of knowledge are fools at best and liars almost surely.

Education is like everything else. If you believe it is someone or something else’s responsibility, you won’t have much of it.

100% agree.

Curious, which bannings you are referring to? I thought this was a thing of the past.

Honestly, your comment makes me wonder if there is any kind of site or project keeping track of that (because there should be), because I saw a headline recently but can't remember any specifics.

Searching 'book banning' on news.google.com still returns a lot of results with towns still doing it.

I think what I was actually thinking of though, was I think Mississippi (I think) deciding to defund all libraries in retaliation for the library suing over book bans.

Yes, US children are deprived of proper education because 'My Two Dads and Me' was taken out of their school library. That's what it is. It has nothing to do with pedagogical theories churned out of Columbia University or "whole language"-based approaches to teaching reading and writing or co-ed high schools or the prisonesque psychoarchitecture of urban and suburban schools or the omnipresence of chemical and moral environmental toxins.