Book banning still prevalent in the U.S. from Signal & Urbanite RSS

According to the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom, there have been 11,000 challenges since 1990 and three out of four of these challenges were aimed at schools or school libraries. In 2009 alone, 460 challenges were reported.
Though this may not seem like such a large number, considering the infinite amount of books and resources in the world, no one should be able to choose what is appropriate to read and what is not.
Understandably, some parents would want to censor the material their children would read, since it could lead to many untrained thoughts.
Plus, on many occasions, parents may not realize what exactly their child is reading. They would assume that it's fine since reading is scholarly and they would think nothing about the possibility of any hidden outrageous content.

Who cites the Huffington Post? Anyway, check out the GS University piece here. See also: You Can't Read This!: Why Books Get Banned (Pop Culture Revolutions), BANNED! An Anthology of Banned Books (14 books), Banned in the U.S.A.: A Reference Guide to Book Censorship in Schools and Public Libraries Revised and Expanded Edition