Censorship or protection of children

McCullough, Jillyn

Abstract

Salem-Keizer School Board will meet to decide whether to keep or remove "Secret Spells & Curious Charms" from the Swegle Elementary School library when a parent, who, as a teenager had been involved in the black arts, considered it an introduction to how to cast spells.

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Resource type
- Intellectual Freedom News
Collections
- Intellectual Freedom Issues in Oregon: A News Database
Photo description
- Loralie Hawes holding an open copy of Secret Spells and Curious Charms
Photo caption
- Loralie Haws holds a copy of "Secret Spells and Curious Charms,: a book her 8-year-old son brought home from the library. Hawes, a devout Christian, thinks that the book introduces children to Satanism and should not be available to them.
Challenged
- Secret spells & curious charms by Monika Beisner
Reading level
- children
Participant
- Loralie Haws; Salem-Keizer School Board; Bart McElroy
Outcome
- retained
Location
- Salem
Source
- Statesman Journal (Salem)
Is part of
- Intellectual Freedom Issues in Oregon: A News Database
Keywords
- occult
- schools
Additional information
- Salem