Argumentative Essay On Censorship In Schools
Today’s technology allows for people to easily access information with just a few keystrokes, but because of the amount of information out there, it is almost impossible to know what will actually get when you hit search on google. Censorship is a necessary practice because it protects the public from unknowingly causing harm, the innocence of children, and widespread turmoil.
The main reasoning for censoring in schools is to keep kids from being able to get their hands on information that they might not be emotionally able to handle. Yes, it is not right for a school to dictate what a child can and cannot handle, but schools cater to a wide variety of students all with varying maturity levels. By censoring books and other learning materials …show more content…
During both wars, the United State censored letters that soldiers sent back home to their loved ones and some that their loved ones sent them. They did this in order to protect soldier numbers, type and amount of weapons, and locations from the enemy, they did this to protect the soldiers. The soldiers did not know what kind of information would be harmful to their efforts, they couldn’t have, so they government had to make sure nothing important slipped through. They did not do this to keep the soldiers from telling their families where they were in the world and what they were doing, but to protect the best they could while the soldiers risked their lives for their country.
There are many arguments out there that are against censorship. Some saying that censorship gives one institution too much power and others saying that it stops the public from being able to hear the full story, but no one really talks about the good it does. No one talks about how it allows our children to live as children by blocking vulgar images or how it protects us from ourselves by making sure our enemies do not get any information they should not have. By censoring we are allowing the public, whether that public is children or a country at war time, live in ignorance, and as they say ‘ignorance is
The main reasoning for censoring in schools is to keep kids from being able to get their hands on information that they might not be emotionally able to handle. Yes, it is not right for a school to dictate what a child can and cannot handle, but schools cater to a wide variety of students all with varying maturity levels. By censoring books and other learning materials …show more content…
During both wars, the United State censored letters that soldiers sent back home to their loved ones and some that their loved ones sent them. They did this in order to protect soldier numbers, type and amount of weapons, and locations from the enemy, they did this to protect the soldiers. The soldiers did not know what kind of information would be harmful to their efforts, they couldn’t have, so they government had to make sure nothing important slipped through. They did not do this to keep the soldiers from telling their families where they were in the world and what they were doing, but to protect the best they could while the soldiers risked their lives for their country.
There are many arguments out there that are against censorship. Some saying that censorship gives one institution too much power and others saying that it stops the public from being able to hear the full story, but no one really talks about the good it does. No one talks about how it allows our children to live as children by blocking vulgar images or how it protects us from ourselves by making sure our enemies do not get any information they should not have. By censoring we are allowing the public, whether that public is children or a country at war time, live in ignorance, and as they say ‘ignorance is