Reading this insightful item in the New York Times brings to mind my own role as a teacher in years past—and believing that its author, Ms. Bridgette Exman, will be sequestering in her Iowa office a book with which I am not only familiar, but encouraged my students to read.

This Summer, I Became the Book-Banning Monster of Iowa. There are no winners in the game of censorship.

Were some of today’s laws regarding book bans in force when I taught junior high school 50 years ago, I have ...