There are some great books I still wouldn’t recommend to readers of certain ages, for various reasons.
“...great books I still wouldn’t recommend to readers of certain ages...”
There always seems to be someone that will get a position of power and play the book game. There have always been books that people found something wrong with them. And many times they were right. During my youth it was the Bond books and 1984. They were fine for R rated movies, and nowadays PG. But I, like you seem to lean, don’t think either of them were appropriate K through 8.
Parents need to be more proactive in their kids education and be interactive with the people that select the books they are subject to. And that includes textbooks to better define what they are being taught. Normally paying the teachers through taxes paid by the parents should warrant some say.
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