Censorship:
Vicki Buita’s reconsideration policy and censorship thoughts:
“The Anderson Community Schools has a reconsideration policy in place. People
who object to materials must first fill out this paperwork. Most don’t want to do that.
This is my 30th year as a library media specialist; I have had a few parents complain
about materials over the years. As luck would have it, every book that the parents
were concerned about was a book that I had read. I could then discuss the book – and
its positive attributes, and most of them could not. They were just protesting based
on what they’d heard, what students had said, etc. (Titles that were mentioned
included Lois Lowry’s The Giver, Lois Duncan’s Killing Mr. Griffin. some Harry
Potter books.) In my experience a calm, understanding discussion goes a long way
toward defusing these controversies.”