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Message: <blockquote data-quote="William Ronald" data-source="post: 1132801" data-attributes="member: 426">In general, most communities and cultures determine what material is appropriate and inappropriate for their children.  This can change over time, and is a subject of debate.  (Some people wish to go for community standards, others wish to have standards set by parents, and there is a great deal of debate over whose standards to use.) Often, parents and officials rely on the advice of others on what is age-appropriate for children. I expect many of these debates to continue for the foreseeable future. (I am trying to avoid politics on this thread, out of respect for the rules of these boards.)My main complaint about how literature is taught in many classes is that interesting books can be made to seem as exciting as a grocery list.  I actually enjoyed To Kill a Mockingbird, but I also enjoy a variety of other works.  Sometimes a work is selected by a school board because it is deemed to be a classic, illustrative of a topic or historical period, or is considered influential.  (Shakespeare's plays are studied in most American high schools because of the Bard of Avon's great influence on other writers.)</blockquote>