Should Huckleberry Finn be banned from high school reading?
That’s almost as dumb as the woman in Georgia who wants Harry Potter banned because it teaches magic. People aren’t going to go out and try to levitate stuff just because they read about it in a book (if all books about magic were banned, we’d be banning Cindarella). Most books people read in school don’t have any educational value. They are just there because they’re required to be and because the students are required to read a certain number of books each school year. I didn’t learn anything new in any books I ever read in school. The only purpose was for the grade and for reading skills. In college, I took a class on Jackie Robinson and though I learned a lot of interesting stuff, the general story I already knew: Jackie Robinson overcomes the racism of society and breaks the color barrier in baseball.
