Junior high and high school are, for many, the best years of an adolescent's life. During these impressionable years children transform into young adults. Teens begin to form personal ideas and beliefs about the world around them based on experiences gained through the social and academic arena. Students are immersed in friendships, first loves, and extracurricular activities, as well as a growing and learning experience. As students travel the road of their educational careers, teachers begin to demand more work and no longer "spoon feed- information to students; rather, pupils are expected to work through ideas with only guidance from instructors. As they advance in years of schooling, students are gradually given more freedom and responsibility in regards to the path their education will take. Along with the freedom that is gained, students are expected to be more active in their education by broadening their thoughts and ideas. Each year students are exposed to more critical ideas through a broad array of literature that pushes their current boundaries of knowledge. This new knowledge is often information that parents consider inappropriate for their developing young adults to be exposed to. Because of this, parents have challenged numerous books that are found on the shelves of school libraries and that are taught in the classrooms. These unjustified challenges have resulted in school boards actually pulling selected books and materials from library shelves and taking them out of the educational curriculum. The decision to censor the material that students have access to has caused an upset in parents, as well as other citizens, that feel that young adult students should be allowed to explore mature situations through literature. .
Though parents have a legitimate right to supervise any materials that their children are exposed to, this right does not extend this censorship to the children of others.
