The comment examines the criteria for the selection and removal of textbooks and library books, discusses unresolved questions concerning books in the public school system, and considers the future of First Amendment application in the public school system. The article examines cases and Court rulings concerning, among other things: (1) the role of public school education in teaching moral values to school children and in protecting young people from exposure to sexually explicit, indecent or lewd speech; (2) students' "right to receive" and school boards' decisions to remove books they find offensive; (3) the development of contextual standards for evaluating First Amendment rights of primary and secondary school students; and (4) when a school is justified in restricting students' free speech rights or removing books from school libraries or curriculums. Notes