Reading Material for Young People

#2 I believe that parents should be able to request that their child not be required to read only little bits of literary works. However, as a forewarning to the parents, forbidding a child to read something is only going to egg them on.

Young Adults should be able pick their own reading literature. Whether they make good choices or bad choices, responsible, or irresponsible, is up to them. Parents can shield their young for only so long to the reality of the world. Which is indeed a harsh and explicit reality, but the reality nonetheless. Banning children from reading certain materials will only make them want to read them more where they are unsupervised or 'old' enough to. Paranoid parents are becoming only too common nowadays, and if you let them mar text, soon they won't want their children to read anything but fake truths about a perfect world. Exposing them to the dangers of drugs in literature will show the risks, sacrifices and danger involved in getting high for a few moments. Now, if for the first time they experience drugs out on the street, they will be the ones paying the price, instead of fictional characters. Also, The Diary of a Young Girl only was attacked because they talk of female menstruating, once again the reality of the world and being human. And they only talk of it for about five short paragraphs and then mention how a character comments that he thinks women are tough to have to deal with it. Now, that's a secret that can only be kept hidden for so long. Why pretend things are the way they aren't?

So in the end, yes, parents could request that their students only read parts of a book, but their child will most likely read it anyway.