Unpopular opinion: Banning books in schools makes kids want to read them more

Last month my kid's school district pulled a novel about teen depression from the library. Three days later kids were passing around photocopies in the hallway. I get that parents want control but all it did was make that book the most wanted thing in the whole building. Has anyone else seen this backfire in their town?

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hayden58717d ago

Yeah not really a ban if they can still walk upstairs for it @harperwright.

harperwright17d ago

Wait, is it really "banning" though or more like just moving books to a different section? At our school they didn't pull a book about race relations entirely, they just moved it from the middle school library to the high school one because of some mature themes. My neighbor got all worked up thinking it was totally banned but her kid could still check it out if she wanted, just had to walk two floors up. I get what you're saying about the copying thing making it popular though, kids are sneaky like that. But actually banning where nobody can access it at all is pretty rare around here at least.