[SpaceManNabs]

> From first principles, it is normal to ban material.

Sure.

> It appears that most of the handwringing is about politically disagreeing with the bans, not hardships of obeying bans

That is not true. The ban list is overly broad. The hobbit is banned in some locations. Harry potter and asoiaf... Maybe high schoolers and middle schoolers shouldn't be reading that stuff. Multiple teachers in multiple districts have been disciplined over books they did not expect. It is far more sustainable for teachers to avoid this issue.

> But they want this material (sexuality, gender, "race theory") available even to pretty young children because of their societal goals/agenda

I am not going to judge this statement's veracity. Let's take it as true. As I mentioned before, the issue would then be that they are also banning other books that have nothing to do with this, and that still makes the jobs of teachers difficult. It is not feasible to have this much overhead on book bans because of political battles and also expect teachers to manage this overhead.

Thanks for sharing your first principles argument. If you have the time, please share some numbers.