Is it OK to run an illegal library from my locker at school?

[Du5t1n 57]

Found on Yahoo! answers via StumbleUpon: Is it OK to run an illegal library from my locker at school?

"Let me explain.

I go to a private school that is rather strict. Recently, the principal and school teacher council released a (very long) list of books we're not allowed to read. I was absolutely appalled, because a large number of the books were classics and others that are my favorites. One of my personal favorites, The Catcher in the Rye, was on the list, so I decided to bring it to school to see if I would really get in trouble. Well... I did but not too much. Then (surprise!) a boy in my English class asked if he could borrow the book, because he heard it was very good AND it was banned! This happened a lot and my locker got to overflowing with the banned books, so I decided to put the unoccupied locker next to me to a good use. I now have 62 books in that locker, about half of what was on the list. I took care only to bring the books with literary quality. Some of these books are:

>The Perks of Being a Wallflower

>His Dark Materials trilogy

>Sabriel

>The Canterbury Tales

>Candide

>The Divine Comedy

>Paradise Lost

>The Godfather

>Mort

>Interview with the Vampire

>The Hunger Games

>The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

>A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

>Animal Farm

>The Witches

>Shade's Children

>The Evolution of Man

> the Holy Qu'ran

... and lots more.

Anyway, I now operate a little mini-library that no one has access to but myself. Practically a real library, because I keep an inventory log and give people due dates and everything. I would be in so much trouble if I got caught, but I think it's the right thing to do because before I started, almost no kid at school but myself took an active interest in reading! Now not only are all the kids reading the banned books, but go out of their way to read anything they can get their hands on. So I'm doing a good thing, right? Oh, and since you're probably wondering "Why can't you just go to a local library and check out the books?" most of the kids are too chicken or their parents won't let them but the books. I think that people should have open minds. Most of the books were banned because they contained information that opposed Catholisism. I limit my 'library' to only the sophmores, juniors and seniors just in case so you can't say I'm exposing young people to materiel they're not mature enough for. But is what I'm doing wrong because parents and teachers don't know about it and might not like it, or is it a good thing because I am starting appreciation of the classics and truly good novels (Not just fad novels like Twilight) in my generation?

* 3 months ago

Additional Details

More books I have:

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Slaughterhouse-5

Lord of the Flies

Bridge to Terabithia

Catch-22

East of Eden

The Brothers Grimm Unabridged Fairytales.

...the list goes on.

3 months ago

Twilight is banned also, but I don't want that polluting my library.

3 months ago

As for getting the press involved, reporters are not allowed on campus. Besides, my parents would be so mad if they found out I was doing this.

3 months ago"

Edited 26 May 2009 by Dustin (see edit history)

[Teto 2609]

> the Holy Qu'ran

What.

[Vadarth X 0]

What the hell is this!?! I hate those kinds of people. What these people did, banning books like that, and harmless ones too, it just makes me want to torture them. I want to hook them up to those Saw contraptions, or, better yet, make them suffer extreme agony for the rest of their lives. I LOATHE people like these.

[Grandmaster Phoenix 26]

We had about 650 books and 25 magazines banned for being "unpatrotic".

[Aethix 129]

Fahrenheit 451 wouldn't happen to be on that ban list, would it?

[Chameleon 0]

Fahrenheit 451 wouldn't happen to be on that ban list, would it?

I'd like to know that, too. It's a good book.

Also, way to go, Dustin!

This is really great!

[Chase 390]

I'm interested to see if the Protestant versions of the Bible are banned. I'm also interested to see if 1984 was banned.

[Padraig! 103]

These people give Catholics a puppying bad name.

[Teto 2609]

Did anybody even follow the link to find out it's just something he found on Yahoo! Answers, asked by someone called Kat Atreides?

Just throwing that out there just in case Chameleon believed that it was Dustin's rebellious nature behind it all.

[Sahaqiel 1232]

We had about 650 books and 25 magazines banned for being "unpatrotic".

Sounds like your kind of rule.

No book should be banned at a school unless it's like, stuffed full of porn.

It's a clear hit to freedom of speech, even though schools have their own ground rules.

That dude should start a petition.

There's no law against this type of thing, but it might make the school angryface.

Sahaqiel

[Padraig! 103]

Actually, he found it on stumbleupon.

[Teto 2609]

And they found it on Yahoo! Answers.

The circle of life, eh?

[Chameleon 0]

I didn't even notice the link. Nothing else pointed toward it not being Dustin.

These people give Catholics a puppying bad name.

Catholics give Catholics a bad name. They are blind fundamentalists.

[Chase 390]

Catholics give Catholics a bad name. They are blind fundamentalists.

I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't bash Catholicism. Thanks.

[Aethix 129]

Catholics give Catholics a bad name. They are blind fundamentalists.

Uh-huh, take it to the religion thread, Mr. Anti-Catholic fundamentalist.