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Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 439: Talking About Censorship.

This is English as a Second Language Podcast number 439. I’m your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles, California.

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This episode is called “Talking About Censorship.” It’s a story about a parent who goes to a school, the school for their children, and the parents have a meeting and they’re discussing what to do about certain books that are in the school’s library or that the teachers are using. This is often a problem in the U.S., some parents may not like the books that the children are being asked to read or that are available to them. Let’s get started.

The school that my daughter attends is trying to decide whether or not to ban certain books, which some parents think are inappropriate. The school called a parents meeting