What are the teacher's or librarian's responsibilities to teaching good literature and addressing children's needs and interests versus responsibility to the community in which they live?

Visit the web sites of the National Council of Teachers of English www.ncte.org/censorship and the American Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif. Read their positions on a student's right to read. Then consider issues of censorship that might arise in your own community. What topics or books might parents or other community members find objectionable? How will you balance the needs and rights of all your students with morays of the community? What rights and responsibilities do you have as a teacher or librarian? What procedures does your school district have in place in case someone objects to a book you want to teach or include in your library? What proactive measures might you take to engage the community in discourse about books and children's needs and rights?