Who Decides Which Book Is ‘Bad’?

There\’s a follow up to This Story at the Washington Post.

The Fairfax County School Board is ground zero for PABBIS. The library board said that only certain children will be permitted to read Ken Follett\’s \”The Pillars of the Earth\” by a 7 to 4 vote. Librarians are to restrict circulation to students in 10th through 12th grades.

\”Cathy Belter, a librarian, was one of the few board members to consider the radical notion that other times had other values and that violent scenes in a 1,000-page tome on medieval architecture do not necessarily mean Fairfax teenagers will arrive at school bearing crossbows and catapults.\”