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

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Anonymous wrote:Incidents such as these will have a chilling effect on what teachers teach in our local schools and how librarians and others do their jobs--and it will no doubt push some school professionals to leave their jobs. But perhaps that is the point...

If you have a few minutes, read this insightful article in WP into how teachers around the country are altering their teaching plans to accommodate this sudden parental interest in what is taught in schools.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/02/14/critical-race-theory-teachers-fear-laws/

I am the 8:39 PP, but this is the point. It is the "othering" of parents by teachers and adults in schools. It is the us versus them mentality that is problematic, especially when teachers have zero responsibility for our children.

Okay Moms for Liberty parent. Were your parents so involved in micromanaging your public school experience? I’m guessing they weren’t.

This!

DP here. My parents never had to worry that my school was exposing me to sexual content because frankly that was unimaginable a couple of decades ago. Boundaries have shifted greatly and parents were simply unaware. You say this is a ginned-up effort by the republicans, but from my perspective schools snuck inappropriate content in without informing parents, and what you think is the Republicans striking first is really a reaction to what could be considered an unannounced move by the left first.

Exactly this. We never had to worry about this idiocy growing up because it was widely agreed that graphic sexual content did not belong in school libraries. Now, however, we have a loud, pushy faction insisting that graphic sexual content be available for kids to peruse. Look, we all know they can see whatever they want online. We're under no illusions about that. But having their public school shove it in their faces is really... beyond inappropriate. And those arguing otherwise strike me as extremely peculiar, not to mention deliberately obtuse. I guess they somehow think it's funny or cute? It's anything but.

LOL, I remember people flipping coins for who was going to check out the school library’s copy of “Forever.” Or was that okay because it only had explicit descriptions of heterosexual sex?

And did the librarian create a display with "Forever" and other sexually graphic novels, urging kids to check them out? Nope. So why is it ok to do that with today's sexually graphic books?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m disappointed at Ms. Greer’s response. It’s makes her look ridiculous.

The sign was in the library since at least Friday morning and was only removed on Tuesday.

If it was really as bad as her email implies, why was it up so long? It’s her school and if there was an actual problem, she should have addressed it before it started trending on Twitter. Or she should have stood up and told the Twitter mob to sit down.

It really disappointing.

I completely disagree. There were many parents who found the librarian's sign to be completely disrespectful of parents and wholly unnecessary. I appreciated Ms. Greer's email apologizing.

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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.

DP. I hate to break it to you, but the unhinged vocal minority are those who are gleeful that our public school libraries see nothing wrong with providing kids graphically sexual books. The majority of reasonable people are those who are simply asking to keep those books out of the schools. You can still bring your kids to public libraries and make sure they get their fair share of graphic sex.

Your kids know what sex is. If they are curious about graphic depictions, they have already found it on the internet.

Yes, I'm well-aware, and even wrote as much in an earlier post. I'm under no illusions there. That's not the point though. The point (for the umpteenth time) is that it's completely inappropriate for public schools to be shoving these books into students' faces.

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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.

DP. I hate to break it to you, but the unhinged vocal minority are those who are gleeful that our public school libraries see nothing wrong with providing kids graphically sexual books. The majority of reasonable people are those who are simply asking to keep those books out of the schools. You can still bring your kids to public libraries and make sure they get their fair share of graphic sex.

Can you go back to the 80s?

Can you grow up and just buy your kids graphic sex novels on Amazon? You seem to desperately want them to read these books. Just buy them or check them out of the library. Knock yourself out.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Incidents such as these will have a chilling effect on what teachers teach in our local schools and how librarians and others do their jobs--and it will no doubt push some school professionals to leave their jobs. But perhaps that is the point...

If you have a few minutes, read this insightful article in WP into how teachers around the country are altering their teaching plans to accommodate this sudden parental interest in what is taught in schools.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/02/14/critical-race-theory-teachers-fear-laws/

I am the 8:39 PP, but this is the point. It is the "othering" of parents by teachers and adults in schools. It is the us versus them mentality that is problematic, especially when teachers have zero responsibility for our children.

Okay Moms for Liberty parent. Were your parents so involved in micromanaging your public school experience? I’m guessing they weren’t.

This!

DP here. My parents never had to worry that my school was exposing me to sexual content because frankly that was unimaginable a couple of decades ago. Boundaries have shifted greatly and parents were simply unaware. You say this is a ginned-up effort by the republicans, but from my perspective schools snuck inappropriate content in without informing parents, and what you think is the Republicans striking first is really a reaction to what could be considered an unannounced move by the left first.

Exactly this. We never had to worry about this idiocy growing up because it was widely agreed that graphic sexual content did not belong in school libraries. Now, however, we have a loud, pushy faction insisting that graphic sexual content be available for kids to peruse. Look, we all know they can see whatever they want online. We're under no illusions about that. But having their public school shove it in their faces is really... beyond inappropriate. And those arguing otherwise strike me as extremely peculiar, not to mention deliberately obtuse. I guess they somehow think it's funny or cute? It's anything but.

LOL, I remember people flipping coins for who was going to check out the school library’s copy of “Forever.” Or was that okay because it only had explicit descriptions of heterosexual sex?

And did the librarian create a display with "Forever" and other sexually graphic novels, urging kids to check them out? Nope. So why is it ok to do that with today's sexually graphic books?

No, but I remember Beloved being a featured selection.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

DP. I hate to break it to you, but the unhinged vocal minority are those who are gleeful that our public school libraries see nothing wrong with providing kids graphically sexual books. The majority of reasonable people are those who are simply asking to keep those books out of the schools. You can still bring your kids to public libraries and make sure they get their fair share of graphic sex.

Your kids know what sex is. If they are curious about graphic depictions, they have already found it on the internet.

Yes, I'm well-aware, and even wrote as much in an earlier post. I'm under no illusions there. That's not the point though. The point (for the umpteenth time) is that it's completely inappropriate for public schools to be shoving these books into students' faces.

Maus has graphic depictions of sex?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It wasn’t just the principal. The Region 1 superintendent (Doug Tyson) issued a separate apology as well. It’s just sad they feel the need to apologize for looking for creative ways to encourage kids to read.

There are many, many other ways to better encourage folks to read than this. C'mon - be better.

Agreed. There are healthy ways to encourage kids to read without putting them against their parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It wasn’t just the principal. The Region 1 superintendent (Doug Tyson) issued a separate apology as well. It’s just sad they feel the need to apologize for looking for creative ways to encourage kids to read.

There are many, many other ways to better encourage folks to read than this. C'mon - be better.

Agreed. There are healthy ways to encourage kids to read without putting them against their parents.

The sign said. I thing about parents. You are projecting because you support censorship.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It wasn’t just the principal. The Region 1 superintendent (Doug Tyson) issued a separate apology as well. It’s just sad they feel the need to apologize for looking for creative ways to encourage kids to read.

There are many, many other ways to better encourage folks to read than this. C'mon - be better.

Agreed. There are healthy ways to encourage kids to read without putting them against their parents.

+2
And MUCH better written books to encourage kids to read.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It wasn’t just the principal. The Region 1 superintendent (Doug Tyson) issued a separate apology as well. It’s just sad they feel the need to apologize for looking for creative ways to encourage kids to read.

There are many, many other ways to better encourage folks to read than this. C'mon - be better.

Agreed. There are healthy ways to encourage kids to read without putting them against their parents.

+2
And MUCH better written books to encourage kids to read.

Much better written than what? Which books in the Langley display do you believe were poorly written?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

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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.

DP. I hate to break it to you, but the unhinged vocal minority are those who are gleeful that our public school libraries see nothing wrong with providing kids graphically sexual books. The majority of reasonable people are those who are simply asking to keep those books out of the schools. You can still bring your kids to public libraries and make sure they get their fair share of graphic sex.

Can you go back to the 80s?

That would be rad.!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

DP. I hate to break it to you, but the unhinged vocal minority are those who are gleeful that our public school libraries see nothing wrong with providing kids graphically sexual books. The majority of reasonable people are those who are simply asking to keep those books out of the schools. You can still bring your kids to public libraries and make sure they get their fair share of graphic sex.

Your kids know what sex is. If they are curious about graphic depictions, they have already found it on the internet.

Kids also know what drugs and alcohol are, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that schools should be the ones buying weed and booze for them to consume at school and constantly encourage their consumption. Does it?
If they did, they would face serious legal consequences for procuring and enabling possession and consumption of illegal substances by minors at their facilities. Can you see the parallel with deliberately exposing minors to pornography and pedophilia? Most parents do, and that is why we are spelling out the obvious time and again to school activists; some librarians, principals, teachers; and all school board members.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

DP. I hate to break it to you, but the unhinged vocal minority are those who are gleeful that our public school libraries see nothing wrong with providing kids graphically sexual books. The majority of reasonable people are those who are simply asking to keep those books out of the schools. You can still bring your kids to public libraries and make sure they get their fair share of graphic sex.

Your kids know what sex is. If they are curious about graphic depictions, they have already found it on the internet.

Kids also know what drugs and alcohol are, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that schools should be the ones buying weed and booze for them to consume at school and constantly encourage their consumption. Does it?
If they did, they would face serious legal consequences for procuring and enabling possession and consumption of illegal substances by minors at their facilities. Can you see the parallel with deliberately exposing minors to pornography and pedophilia? Most parents do, and that is why we are spelling out the obvious time and again to school activists; some librarians, principals, teachers; and all school board members.

LOL. You know that reading about sex isn’t the same thing as having sex, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m disappointed at Ms. Greer’s response. It’s makes her look ridiculous.

The sign was in the library since at least Friday morning and was only removed on Tuesday.

If it was really as bad as her email implies, why was it up so long? It’s her school and if there was an actual problem, she should have addressed it before it started trending on Twitter. Or she should have stood up and told the Twitter mob to sit down.

It really disappointing.

I completely disagree. There were many parents who found the librarian's sign to be completely disrespectful of parents and wholly unnecessary. I appreciated Ms. Greer's email apologizing.

LOL - "many".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It wasn’t just the principal. The Region 1 superintendent (Doug Tyson) issued a separate apology as well. It’s just sad they feel the need to apologize for looking for creative ways to encourage kids to read.

There are many, many other ways to better encourage folks to read than this. C'mon - be better.

Agreed. There are healthy ways to encourage kids to read without putting them against their parents.

+2
And MUCH better written books to encourage kids to read.

Much better written than what? Which books in the Langley display do you believe were poorly written?

Crickets.

Dumb a$$ book banners can't be bothered to actually READ any books. Only ban them.