I think that preventing kids from reading books like Go Ask Alice, which gives real, first-hand information on how drugs can affect someone's life, isn't right because it's like saying that the kids shouldn't know about these topics that are very real and everywhere in the world. If you keep that sort of material away from kids, when it's time for them to face the real world and those issues, they won't have any knowledge on how to deal with it. Or if you keep them ignorant about things like sexuality, it's more than likely that kids will just go out and maybe innocently do some things that they won't be proud of later, all because they didn't know any better.
If parents objected to some piece of history in a social studies book, then they're against some act that people in history actually did. That's not wrong, to believe that something that once happened might be wrong because people do make mistakes, but to ban kids from learning about it prevents them from realizing the wrong and makes it more likely for them to relive the mistake later. And I don't think parents have the right to request that their children don't read that part in history because it's all human nature, and whether something happened two years ago or two hundred, people are all connected and are fully capable of making the same mistakes no matter when or where in the world they are.
Keeping kids away from real-world problems and realities isn't ever going to help them later in their lives when their forced to face them head on, and nothing should be considered unjust or obscene because it all came from a human's mind in the first place.
