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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 1133020" data-attributes="member: 3649">For many kids, though, esp. the ones in poorer districts or rural locations - the very ones that more than likely need access to the ideas and concepts that most of those books provide - the local school library may be the only one they ever see on a regular basis. It's a very thorny issue. I'd not like being told my community or school did or did not have the right to do something within it's legal capabilities, but at the same time I wish there was some defense against this kind of rampant stupidity. Thankfully, when a book does come under fire, sometimes the local bookstore will take up that challenge; I've read at least a couple instances where they'd simply give out copies of said 'banned' book. Good idea. This is where I wish I were rich, so I could provide that kind of service wherever a book is challenged. That doesn't help the very yound kids, since they usually depends on parents for their mobility, but hopefully someone could sneak them a copy.  As for 'waiting until they are of age'? It's too late by then. By that time, a lot of kids have simply given up on reading for the simpler entertainment offered by TV and computer games. Put books, as many books as possible, in their hands at an early age. Alternately guide them, and leave them alone to discover what they do like in reading, let them develop their own tastes.</blockquote>