The Publishers Marketing Association has This Column, by Tad Crawford and Kay Murray that says Objectionable material may lawfully be kept from minors.
They take a look at Dirty Words vs. Dirty Books, Limits on \”Community Standards\” and say most states give school boards the authority to dictate curricula, course books, and library holdings free from outside interference, but even those decisions have First Amendment limitations, especially regarding removal of books from school libraries.
\”Community views of what is offensive and what is appropriate are central to the censorship debate and directly determine outcomes because many cases never reach a courtroom. In fact, the active participation of publishers, writers, and anti-censorship groups in schools’ administrative proceedings has helped to defeat many attempts to censor what young people may read.\”
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