Freitag

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…the censors were crawling out of the woodwork and challenging, like it’s our turn now, and we’re going to say what we don’t want our children to read.

But I think it’s more than that. It’s what we don’t want our children to know, what we don’t want to talk to our children about; and if they read it, they’ll know it, or they’ll question it.

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-  Judy Blume on the rise of censorship in school libraries over the last several decades. (via npr)

I see this now more clearly than I’ve ever seen it before. Now that my oldest is in public school, I am interacting with more parents and what I see is a group of people determined to believe their children will be children forever.