Journal Response #2

This is a journal response to the article, “If Students Own Their Learning” by Curt Dudley-Martin.

The author of this article is completely against censorship in schools, yet he states that censorship is not black and white. Many of the statements he made were valid, but he contradicted them so many times that it was hard to agree with what he was saying. It was interesting how he portrayed his own daughter as a snobbish child, although she did have a good question. I agree with her question though. The school should honor a student’s right to read whatever they wish, but there are times when a student is reading something they should not be. I think censorship should be more student-based rather than book based. No two students will react the same to the same book, so rather than censor which books students read, censor which students read the books.