No, this kid is a hero.
When I was in High School Fr. Debosier read The Miller’s Tale or was it The Reeve’s Tale? The milder of the two, about Nicholas and the “Second Noahe’s Floode.” 
No. This is a hero.
Nothing by J.G. Ballard, Samuel Delany or Steve Keshner? Bullshit she’s a “hero.”
And the Koran is not a work of “literary quality.” It is a religious text. I have (tried) to read it; it is just as boring as the Bible, which is to say, extremely boring. I think that one was thrown in there just to piss off Christians.
It also contains a rock-solid argument proving the non-existence of god.
I remember a talking beast in the bible. I think it was a stoat.
No, I tell a lie. Now that I think about it, it was a snake. Yes, a snake.
He has my vote for hero of the day/week/month/year.
Pretending this were real, why would The Divine Comedy be banned?
NO, but it’s apparently banned, so it qualifies for this guy’s lending library.
I don’t recall it’s being banned when I worked at the Library and was up on such things, but I would think the Catholic and Baptist mythology don’t play well together.
Yeah, because in sharing with his friends the banned books he’d read, he’s forfeited any right to an opinion and abdicatded his will to “usage patterns and borrowing statistics.” Do you chide the school dealer for not carrying milk and lotto tickets?
When she does so because she objects to other people trying to stifle ideas, she certainly ought to have the largeness of spirit to let people read what they want. Do you honestly think her purpose in starting her own library is to be a mere enlightened despot?
Despot? The kid in question isn’t the only source of books. If you’re providing the books out of your own funds or collection, why go out of your way to buy Twilight because other kids want to read it? If they want to get it so much, they can find it on their own and start their own lending libraries.
How can a book be “banned” when you can get it at any Barnes & Noble or on Amazon?
At most, a school can choose not to keep a book on its library shelves (which they’re perfectly within their rights to do) and to purge it from their Required Reading list (which they’re ALSO perfectly within their rights to do).
How much “heroism” is really involved? is their a single kid ANYWHERE who couldn’t get a copy of “Catcher in the Rye” except through some kind of Underground Railroad?
No, and neither is the school library. This fact notwithstanding, we clearly are troubled when people (particularly “the authorities,” of whose number this student, I freely admit, is not) presume to tell others what ideas they may have access to. And while I commend her resistance to an overbearing school administration, I would be even more delighted if she did not show the germ of the very same “for your own good” despotic ambitions of her principals and school librarians.
Today’s students are tomorrow’s educators; let’s hope between now and then (and I am hopeful of this) that she will realize that being educated is more than a matter of completing a reading list.
Okay but admittedly, the student is acting out of a locker (do we know if the student is male or female, btw? I couldn’t tell from the link). Obviously space and funds are limited–it’s one person providing it. If she said, “I don’t have enough space for all the books and I just decided to go with the books that have the most librarian approval/literary kudos,” would that be okay? I mean, obviously she’s not stocking everything.
I’m skeptical of this story. It sounds like what you’d get if the movie Footloose had been written by nerds.
Someone should sue her and her locker library for the woefully incomplete book selection. After all, she’s not letting her fellow students read what they want . . . well, okay, maybe that’s a strong conclusiuon, but she’s telling her fellow student what they should have access to by . . . by . . uh, by . . . oh forget it.
don’t forget, by lending out banned titles whilst making throw-away jokes about YA lit, she’s not letting people read what they want
Oh, don’t strain your brain, whole bean. And thanks for sharing.
Good burn, Kimmie. “Thanks for sharing.” I gotta write that down.