Sheltering children from the classics isn't the answer, says Pam Frampton, who believes guidance from adults is the better response

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I was pleased to hear that Alberta has backtracked on its atrociously over-the-top school library book ban and that a little more common sense is prevailing.

The policy now specifies that books containing graphic sexual images are prohibited, but those containing written references to sex are not.

But perhaps it’s the Edmonton public school board I ought to be commending. It was so thorough in following the government’s initial directive to remove from the shelves any book depicting sexual acts in words or visual imagery that it announced it would have to ban such literary classics as Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple,” and........

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