School Board Meeting 9/23

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Anonymous wrote:Books at fcps high schools promoting pedophilia and pornography, true?

Can anyone verify if this is true?

Wow. That graphic novel. How is cartoon pedophilia legal much less approved to be in schools? Wtf???

You are completely nuts.

There is no “pedophilia” in either book.

A cartoon drawing of a sexual act is not pornography unless it is objectively indented to sexually arouse the reader. Is it prurient and salacious? It is ridiculous to claim so. No kid - not even in 7th grade, is turning to page 46 of a graphic novel about queerness in order to get off. Actual porn is right in his hands on his phone. It’s not 1923.

Apparently the school board agrees that it is. The books were both pulled.

The books were pulled and the review process triggered. This is not the SB agreeing that they are inappropriate. It is forming a committee as laid out in the regulation about school library material challenges.

Fine with me. In general, I am anti censorship but I am certainly not going to die on the hill of “Lawn Boy.”

I personally don't think it's worth defending, but on the other hand, it is worth defending as it will just lead to parents combing over tons of books in the library, trigging these challenges, and tying up educators who are just trying to get kids reading and back in the groove of school this year. Censorship is a slippery slope.

Frankly, there are TONS of great books out there for kids to read. The books in question don't fit into the category of "great books." If you want your kid to read them, buy them or go to a public library.

I am a former educator and not keen on book banning, but I also believe schools should be selective about the books they purchase for their libraries given limited funding.

Why aren’t they “great”?

Because they are way too sexually explicit for a high school library. They are porn.

Aside from the sexually explicit section(s), what did you think about the book?

What % of the books were sexually explicit would you say?

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The man boy love group found this thread

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Anonymous wrote:The man boy love group found this thread

It that what the proud boys are calling themselves these days?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Books at fcps high schools promoting pedophilia and pornography, true?

Can anyone verify if this is true?

Wow. That graphic novel. How is cartoon pedophilia legal much less approved to be in schools? Wtf???

You are completely nuts.

There is no “pedophilia” in either book.

A cartoon drawing of a sexual act is not pornography unless it is objectively indented to sexually arouse the reader. Is it prurient and salacious? It is ridiculous to claim so. No kid - not even in 7th grade, is turning to page 46 of a graphic novel about queerness in order to get off. Actual porn is right in his hands on his phone. It’s not 1923.

You are demented.

[Anonymous]

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Aside from the sexually explicit section(s), what did you think about the book?

What % of the books were sexually explicit would you say?

You are a sick puppy. I hope my kid never enters your home to be exposed to sexual content. Or your school. Your space. Listening distance! Be gone Satan

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Books at fcps high schools promoting pedophilia and pornography, true?

Can anyone verify if this is true?

Wow. That graphic novel. How is cartoon pedophilia legal much less approved to be in schools? Wtf???

Because it’s being normalized and encouraging acceptance.

[Anonymous]

Wow. That graphic novel. How is cartoon pedophilia legal much less approved to be in schools? Wtf???


Because it’s being normalized and encouraging acceptance.

+1

Just makes me sad. Kids deal with enough without this kind of influence. I think most parents feel that way. Not sure the SB was really concerned about kids in the room or if they themselves were deeply offended by the language and pictures. I doubt most of them were even aware of this kind of stuff.

In fact, I wonder if the people on this thread defending the books even have kids. Troubling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Wow. That graphic novel. How is cartoon pedophilia legal much less approved to be in schools? Wtf???


Because it’s being normalized and encouraging acceptance.

+1

Just makes me sad. Kids deal with enough without this kind of influence. I think most parents feel that way. Not sure the SB was really concerned about kids in the room or if they themselves were deeply offended by the language and pictures. I doubt most of them were even aware of this kind of stuff.

In fact, I wonder if the people on this thread defending the books even have kids. Troubling.

Like most people posting here, I haven’t read the book, so I have no idea what’s portrayed or how it is framed or if it is, indeed, groundbreaking in some way. However, I don’t like this trend of raising hell over curricular choices. It just gives the district administration more grounds to overhaul and micromanage how and what teachers teach which you might think is great but it really isn’t. They will employ crappy contractors and third party curriculum development “experts” who waste money that needs to go to the front lines, and create more obstacles for teachers to negotiate because they will be “required” to use whatever crap materials the contractors develop.

If your kid’s teacher decides to teach “Lawn Boy,” then make your objections known and an alternative book will be supplied for the short term, and long term “Lawn Boy” will be removed as an option because it is too much trouble to teach.

[Anonymous]

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Aside from the sexually explicit section(s), what did you think about the book?

What % of the books were sexually explicit would you say?

You are a sick puppy. I hope my kid never enters your home to be exposed to sexual content. Or your school. Your space. Listening distance! Be gone Satan

So....you haven't read them?

Don't offer up opinions about books you haven't even read.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Wow. That graphic novel. How is cartoon pedophilia legal much less approved to be in schools? Wtf???


Because it’s being normalized and encouraging acceptance.

+1

Just makes me sad. Kids deal with enough without this kind of influence. I think most parents feel that way. Not sure the SB was really concerned about kids in the room or if they themselves were deeply offended by the language and pictures. I doubt most of them were even aware of this kind of stuff.

In fact, I wonder if the people on this thread defending the books even have kids. Troubling.

Hey illiterati brain trust...THERE IS NO PEDOPHILIA OR PORNOGRAPHY.

You'd know that if you actually read the book. Or read something other than The Daily Wire to get your news.

[Anonymous]

I guess when the subject of "book banning" comes up it brings out all of the illiterate morons out of the woodwork.

Thanks for letting us know that you can't read for yourself or form an actual opinion yourself. Just go ahead and listen to FoxNews lies.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:God, these kids are getting Lucy Calkins, no five-paragraph essay practice, no grammar, spelling or vocabulary, no book reports, no presentation skills or public speaking practice, plus this trash. Lost generation indeed.

BS. My FCPS kids are in ES and have gotten all of the above skills.

Bull**** lady, I call the same on you. Name the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Wow. That graphic novel. How is cartoon pedophilia legal much less approved to be in schools? Wtf???


Because it’s being normalized and encouraging acceptance.

+1

Just makes me sad. Kids deal with enough without this kind of influence. I think most parents feel that way. Not sure the SB was really concerned about kids in the room or if they themselves were deeply offended by the language and pictures. I doubt most of them were even aware of this kind of stuff.

In fact, I wonder if the people on this thread defending the books even have kids. Troubling.

Hey illiterati brain trust...THERE IS NO PEDOPHILIA OR PORNOGRAPHY.

You'd know that if you actually read the book. Or read something other than The Daily Wire to get your news.

You sound unhinged Karl.

[Anonymous]

Friends, you know the GOP trolls have been running rampant on this board for the past year, right?

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Anonymous wrote:Friends, you know the GOP trolls have been running rampant on this board for the past year, right?

It’s alarming because their voices are so amplified…the rest of us are just trying to cope with COVID and raising our kids and working, and these nutters have the time to manufacture these controversies and drive our elected leaders bonkers with them…worse, then cause the schools to make these reactionary decisions because the outsized amplification makes it seem like these are real people part of a real movement. Regular Fairfax voters and parents are shaking our heads wondering who invited all the lunatics?