Hello all, My name is Haylee Cannon, and I have the ever-entertaining career of teaching 8th grade English in North Texas. I love my job because I am continuously impressed by my students and their ability to bring joy and laughter into any situation. As a teacher, my main job is to help students think critically and emphatically about their world and to replace their empty mind with an open one. Because one of my main goals is to help students think critically, I am particularly heartbroken, frustrated, and confused about the book banning agenda that is developing within our country. I firmly believe that books teach us some of the greatest lessons we can ever learn, even when those lessons are hard to hear. It’s baffling that we are trying to get rid of these books because they may act as a social or political critique. Being difficult to hear does not mean it shouldn’t be heard. Oscar Wilde explains, “The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the ...
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