“Stuff Some Adults Don’t Want You to Read” at Langley

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Of course it was at Langley. At any other high school in this region, parents would be applauding the librarian, but the rich white bored moms at Langley are outraged. Too many similarities to Loudon families.

I am a Langley parent and I don’t think most Langley parents care one way or the other about the sign. As my daughter said when I asked her what the sign said, “I don’t even go to the library so I don’t know what you are talking about.” LOL. I believe this issue came from a Cooper parent during a rising 9th grader parent meeting. I believe (but I’m not 100% sure) that this parent is the same one who took her kids to Fortestville Elementary on the Tuesday after Youngkin issued his mask Executive Order and demanded her kids go maskless, then filmed herself ranting about the injustice of it all when the school denied her request. Now she’s doing this with the book issue. I wonder what will come next?

The majority of parents at Langley had no issue with this. It’s a small group of women, including this one mentioned that come up with this shit. This one at Forestville didn’t act alone, there was a Langley parent who helped and together they spew all this anti-masking, anti-vaccine shit and it’s all because they can’t get over the fact Trump lost!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Of course it was at Langley. At any other high school in this region, parents would be applauding the librarian, but the rich white bored moms at Langley are outraged. Too many similarities to Loudon families.

I am a Langley parent and I don’t think most Langley parents care one way or the other about the sign. As my daughter said when I asked her what the sign said, “I don’t even go to the library so I don’t know what you are talking about.” LOL. I believe this issue came from a Cooper parent during a rising 9th grader parent meeting. I believe (but I’m not 100% sure) that this parent is the same one who took her kids to Fortestville Elementary on the Tuesday after Youngkin issued his mask Executive Order and demanded her kids go maskless, then filmed herself ranting about the injustice of it all when the school denied her request. Now she’s doing this with the book issue. I wonder what will come next?

The majority of parents at Langley had no issue with this. It’s a small group of women, including this one mentioned that come up with this shit. This one at Forestville didn’t act alone, there was a Langley parent who helped and together they spew all this anti-masking, anti-vaccine shit and it’s all because they can’t get over the fact Trump lost!

This unhinged vocal minority of parents is tearing apart our community for their own political goals. I really hope the majority of reasonable people shows up soon.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Of course it was at Langley. At any other high school in this region, parents would be applauding the librarian, but the rich white bored moms at Langley are outraged. Too many similarities to Loudon families.

I am a Langley parent and I don’t think most Langley parents care one way or the other about the sign. As my daughter said when I asked her what the sign said, “I don’t even go to the library so I don’t know what you are talking about.” LOL. I believe this issue came from a Cooper parent during a rising 9th grader parent meeting. I believe (but I’m not 100% sure) that this parent is the same one who took her kids to Fortestville Elementary on the Tuesday after Youngkin issued his mask Executive Order and demanded her kids go maskless, then filmed herself ranting about the injustice of it all when the school denied her request. Now she’s doing this with the book issue. I wonder what will come next?

The majority of parents at Langley had no issue with this. It’s a small group of women, including this one mentioned that come up with this shit. This one at Forestville didn’t act alone, there was a Langley parent who helped and together they spew all this anti-masking, anti-vaccine shit and it’s all because they can’t get over the fact Trump lost!

Is there anything that you and like-minded parents at Langley can do to counter the effect this small group of women (your words) has on your school? Otherwise silence will seem like consent and school officials will continue to respond to the squeaky wheels.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rofl. Morons.

There's a fantastically funny video circulating with a guy interviewing people for their opinions on whether or not a book should be banned from school libraries. He lists all of the atrocities in the book... genocide, rape, profanity, murder, etc. and these people's faces get more and more horrified. He finally asks if they agree the book should be banned and all eagerly agree. Then his "gotcha" moment is when he says something like "excellent, so if you'll sign this petition, we'll get the Bible banned."

Do public school libraries have copies of the Bible in them? Genuinely curious about that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Joe Rogan has published a couple books. Were the librarians displaying those in the same section? How would that make OP feel?

Are Joe Rogan's books available in PUBLIC SCHOOL libraries? No? Oh.

[Anonymous]

I'm a school librarian in FCPS. I do a banned books display every year. In includes information about the 10 most often banned books. It is always one of my most popular displays and gets students talking to each other about censorship. Considering putting it out this week now.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is yet another way that schools are making it an us (parents) versus them (adults in schools) mentality. Perpetuating the notion our kids, while at school, are independent and unaccountable to their parents is troubling. Or, at the worst indefensible, when "teaching" that their parents are morally wrong or "bad" because parents beliefs are counter to what is being normalized at school. I do not want to dictate what schools teach my kids, I just want schools to reiterate to our children that parents have the biggest stake in their lives. And, no matter what, their parents and what their parents provide, encourage, and instill in kids are the biggest indicators of success - not replaceable by anything a school can, nor should, do for children. Parenting is hard enough these days without having to fight and counter what adults, who are not in any way (legally, financially, emotionally) responsible for our children, are "teaching."

https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/commentary/educations-enduring-love-affair-luxury-beliefs

You read a lot into a display that served to encourage students to read and put them on notice that there are people trying to censor what they can read.

It's not like the sign said "Stuff Your Own Parents Don't Want You to Read."

It just screams insecurity that a few Langley parents would make a big deal out of this to the point where the principal would feel a need to apologize. I bet she wishes she'd never left Marshall.

Bet it is more than "a few" parents and that many of you don't have kid or even live in fcps.

Most definitely this. Or even have kids at Langley. What the librarian did was a cheap stunt - and done when 8th graders were touring the school over the weekend. Nice.

I'm sure you're fine-tuning your resume to apply for a position there where you can exercise better judgment than the Langley librarians.

Or, more likely, you'll continue the same carping, second-guessing, and harassment.

Any imbecile would have exercised better judgment than this librarian. The books are in the school library? Fine. Deliberately creating a display of controversial books and adding a sign that pretty much says, "Screw your parents"? Horrible judgment.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Joe Rogan has published a couple books. Were the librarians displaying those in the same section? How would that make OP feel?

Are Joe Rogan's books available in PUBLIC SCHOOL libraries? No? Oh.

What books has Joe Rogan written? There are books ABOUT him, but I can't find anything he has written himself. Guessing they do not possess literary or educational merit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It was a ridiculous display clearly done to piss off parents. There is no way it wasn’t done maliciously.

The sad thing is that it is Black History month. Instead of focusing on that and promoting books by black authors and about black history, they are creating displays to cause issues and distract from that.

And PPs all saying it was clever and all that - you are pretty transparent. I know you aren’t dumb enough to really believe they did it to promote reading.

THIS ^^^. Think of all the fantastic literary works that could have been on display. Our culture is rapidly descending into Idiocracy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is yet another way that schools are making it an us (parents) versus them (adults in schools) mentality. Perpetuating the notion our kids, while at school, are independent and unaccountable to their parents is troubling. Or, at the worst indefensible, when "teaching" that their parents are morally wrong or "bad" because parents beliefs are counter to what is being normalized at school. I do not want to dictate what schools teach my kids, I just want schools to reiterate to our children that parents have the biggest stake in their lives. And, no matter what, their parents and what their parents provide, encourage, and instill in kids are the biggest indicators of success - not replaceable by anything a school can, nor should, do for children. Parenting is hard enough these days without having to fight and counter what adults, who are not in any way (legally, financially, emotionally) responsible for our children, are "teaching."

https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/commentary/educations-enduring-love-affair-luxury-beliefs

You read a lot into a display that served to encourage students to read and put them on notice that there are people trying to censor what they can read.

It's not like the sign said "Stuff Your Own Parents Don't Want You to Read."

It just screams insecurity that a few Langley parents would make a big deal out of this to the point where the principal would feel a need to apologize. I bet she wishes she'd never left Marshall.

Bet it is more than "a few" parents and that many of you don't have kid or even live in fcps.

Most definitely this. Or even have kids at Langley. What the librarian did was a cheap stunt - and done when 8th graders were touring the school over the weekend. Nice.

I'm sure you're fine-tuning your resume to apply for a position there where you can exercise better judgment than the Langley librarians.

Or, more likely, you'll continue the same carping, second-guessing, and harassment.

Any imbecile would have exercised better judgment than this librarian. The books are in the school library? Fine. Deliberately creating a display of controversial books and adding a sign that pretty much says, "Screw your parents"? Horrible judgment.

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[Anonymous]

I like books banned by right and left and probably a heading banned booked not the one selected here.

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Anonymous wrote:This is yet another way that schools are making it an us (parents) versus them (adults in schools) mentality. Perpetuating the notion our kids, while at school, are independent and unaccountable to their parents is troubling. Or, at the worst indefensible, when "teaching" that their parents are morally wrong or "bad" because parents beliefs are counter to what is being normalized at school. I do not want to dictate what schools teach my kids, I just want schools to reiterate to our children that parents have the biggest stake in their lives. And, no matter what, their parents and what their parents provide, encourage, and instill in kids are the biggest indicators of success - not replaceable by anything a school can, nor should, do for children. Parenting is hard enough these days without having to fight and counter what adults, who are not in any way (legally, financially, emotionally) responsible for our children, are "teaching."

https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/commentary/educations-enduring-love-affair-luxury-beliefs

You read a lot into a display that served to encourage students to read and put them on notice that there are people trying to censor what they can read.

It's not like the sign said "Stuff Your Own Parents Don't Want You to Read."

It just screams insecurity that a few Langley parents would make a big deal out of this to the point where the principal would feel a need to apologize. I bet she wishes she'd never left Marshall.

Bet it is more than "a few" parents and that many of you don't have kid or even live in fcps.

Most definitely this. Or even have kids at Langley. What the librarian did was a cheap stunt - and done when 8th graders were touring the school over the weekend. Nice.

I'm sure you're fine-tuning your resume to apply for a position there where you can exercise better judgment than the Langley librarians.

Or, more likely, you'll continue the same carping, second-guessing, and harassment.

Any imbecile would have exercised better judgment than this librarian. The books are in the school library? Fine. Deliberately creating a display of controversial books and adding a sign that pretty much says, "Screw your parents"? Horrible judgment.

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Again. This isn't new.https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/banned

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a school librarian in FCPS. I do a banned books display every year. In includes information about the 10 most often banned books. It is always one of my most popular displays and gets students talking to each other about censorship. Considering putting it out this week now.

Do you feel safe putting out a banned book display this year given the political climate?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a school librarian in FCPS. I do a banned books display every year. In includes information about the 10 most often banned books. It is always one of my most popular displays and gets students talking to each other about censorship. Considering putting it out this week now.

Do you feel safe putting out a banned book display this year given the political climate?

She might work at a school with saner parents than Langley.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is yet another way that schools are making it an us (parents) versus them (adults in schools) mentality. Perpetuating the notion our kids, while at school, are independent and unaccountable to their parents is troubling. Or, at the worst indefensible, when "teaching" that their parents are morally wrong or "bad" because parents beliefs are counter to what is being normalized at school. I do not want to dictate what schools teach my kids, I just want schools to reiterate to our children that parents have the biggest stake in their lives. And, no matter what, their parents and what their parents provide, encourage, and instill in kids are the biggest indicators of success - not replaceable by anything a school can, nor should, do for children. Parenting is hard enough these days without having to fight and counter what adults, who are not in any way (legally, financially, emotionally) responsible for our children, are "teaching."

https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/commentary/educations-enduring-love-affair-luxury-beliefs

I’m pretty sure the kids themselves have a bigger stake in their own lives than their parents do.

Also, setting aside the specifics of this incident, some parents do a truly awful job raising their child and instill reprehensible values. In those cases, it is absolutely in the kid’s best interest for other adults to get involved and try to teach better values.