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You are solely concerned for the students' moral welfare and consider yourself pro-censorship if it means protecting the children.  You do not want inappropriate materials circulating through their school!  You want to find out why  Candide was banned in the first place.

Helpful Links

http://GeorgeSuttle.com/censorship/censorsall.html#censorsB

This is an excellent jumping board to lots of links and intersting information.
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http://www.luc.edu/libraries/banned/

Pay careful attention to the first paragraph here... get some ideas about the motivations of censors.  There are awesome links on this page.

http://www.freedomforum.org/speech/1998/6/30lacks.asp

This link features an article about a teacher who was fired for not censoring sutdents' work.  As an experienced teacher, yourself, what do you think about that?
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http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/winer96/pubCONN.html

This is an essay that just might change your mind... it is a woman's recollection of her youth and her literary experiencee then, and how that of today's youth is different.
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