Why do we censor in Schools?

In High School, we had to read many books with profane words, sex, rape and all that stuff.

I guess the content might be a little intense, but it sparks a good debate/conversation in class.

Love in The Time of Cholera? That book had loads in it <_< Starts with stalking, moves to the guy getting raped, then to more stuff. Basically its got it all, sex rape (both ways) as well as incest, which was an odd one @_a it was a teenage girl (not 18 for sure) who goes to live with the main character, who is a distant uncle or something cant remember for sure, who is at least 60. He basically puts the moves on her. She gets to the point where she cant live without having sex with him. He puts an end to it when the love interest in the book (lol over arching stories) becomes single again, she kills herself. Really, that was the worst i read in HS when it came to in book topics.

Also read "Portrait of The Artist As a Young Man", that had prostitutes and sexual fixations while becoming a clergyman in the catholic church. Really a good read.

Outside of those there wasnt really anything that stuck out as having bad content. And there was no one who went out after that and turned their underage distant relative into a "sex slave" or anything.


One thing to notice is that the level of censorship will lower as you get higher in the grade levels. Early grade levels, I would say "fox" as the F word, and was basically told not to say fox for a while :\ Later on, they were teaching about people being killed in history. And after that i cant vouche since i basically went from middle school straight to college.