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Anonymous wrote:Repubs should have stayed away from book banning and crucifying trans kids. As well as slamming equity like it is a slur.

Maybe they would have had a chance.

exactly I would not vote for anyone who supports book banning or crucifying any kids because of who they are.

You sound like my retired parents who go on and on about the book banning they see on the news. This is such a non issue for my kids. I can’t remember the last time they took out a book from the school library (high school and middle schoolers) or possibly even went into a school library. We are thinking of ordering some of these books as presents for my parents for Christmas, so they can have a copy of the books they are so upset over possibly being banned.

Oh you are one of those people who had breakfast and, because of that, think there are no starving people in the world. . . . it IS a problem

But not a large problem if most students aren't even using the library. Not a daily problem. There are bigger issues in FCPS is all. This isn't something that people should be aligning their vote on either republican or democrat.

Book banning is the work of authoritarian regimes and a number of republican school board candidates made it part of their campaign platform. Yes, I will align my vote with candidates who aren't banning books and will oppose those candidates who spew hate against our trans and LGBTQ students.

Your overwhelming support those books is a little bizarre. It was a stupid argument on the right to bring up, but equally stupid of the left to meet their fire. They were comic books with pictures of adults doing sex acts with minors. If that's how you want to focus your energy as to what the school board should focus on when kids don't even go to the library or usually read these books, then don't expect other actual work that matters to academics to get done. Just like the dyslexic kid's issue with getting all the language arts teaching plus dyslexia fit into a school day, the school board can only focus on so many things.

The people choosing books for libraries are librarians, not SB members. The people getting their panties in a bunch over whatever they perceive as inappropriate, are all right wingers. Everything was fine, until these people started making a fuss over books that kids likely wouldn't have even heard of, if they hadn't brought them up. The people wasting everyone's time, is those people making a fuss over books and expecting that they be banned.

Personally, I do not ban books for my child. She is free to read whatever she wants. If you don't want your kid to read something, take it up with your kid. I'm not about to tell you that you shouldn't do that. It's not something that the SB's time should be wasted on. Therefore, when someone running for the SB makes it just about the entirety of their platform, it's not someone I take seriously, or want anywhere near a SB. If they're wasting everyone's time as a non-SB member, I can only imagine how much more they would, if they're on a SB.

So school porn is good as long as it's stealth porn kept on the down low.

It’s not porn no matter how many times you repeat that RWNJ talking point.

So anything goes. Got it.

DP: It isn't porn--it wasn't meant to promote sexual arousal, both books involved a person reflecting on their experiences--and in fact reflecting on how they had sexual experiences that were troublesome to them. Something some teens can relate to and would benefit from reading about. Some parents are fine with it and think their teens can benefit about reading books that include honest accounts of how other people feel about sex. Other parents feel they go too far--especially since one was a graphic novel.

But the bigger point is if you think it's not appropriate--and I can totally understand that-- there is already a process in place for challenge. The book challenge process has been a fixture in school libraries across the country for decades. If this isn't enough, maybe we should think about there being a section of the library where there are more questionable books that some in the community support and some object to, that you need parental permission to access. But instead Fox news decided to find offensive books and make a big deal out of them and moms 4 liberty try to make it a political act and make it look like the left supports porn for kids. Net result--a lot more of your kids find out about and are interested in the books in question--not the aim the protestors were supposedly looking for--and you find out in elections that there are more people who are against book bans and being told they support giving porn to their kids etc. There are reasonable ways to work out differences, but none of the Republicans opted to take that path.

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Democrats won.

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Anonymous wrote:Repubs should have stayed away from book banning and crucifying trans kids. As well as slamming equity like it is a slur.

Maybe they would have had a chance.

exactly I would not vote for anyone who supports book banning or crucifying any kids because of who they are.

You sound like my retired parents who go on and on about the book banning they see on the news. This is such a non issue for my kids. I can’t remember the last time they took out a book from the school library (high school and middle schoolers) or possibly even went into a school library. We are thinking of ordering some of these books as presents for my parents for Christmas, so they can have a copy of the books they are so upset over possibly being banned.

Oh you are one of those people who had breakfast and, because of that, think there are no starving people in the world. . . . it IS a problem

But not a large problem if most students aren't even using the library. Not a daily problem. There are bigger issues in FCPS is all. This isn't something that people should be aligning their vote on either republican or democrat.

Book banning is the work of authoritarian regimes and a number of republican school board candidates made it part of their campaign platform. Yes, I will align my vote with candidates who aren't banning books and will oppose those candidates who spew hate against our trans and LGBTQ students.

Your overwhelming support those books is a little bizarre. It was a stupid argument on the right to bring up, but equally stupid of the left to meet their fire. They were comic books with pictures of adults doing sex acts with minors. If that's how you want to focus your energy as to what the school board should focus on when kids don't even go to the library or usually read these books, then don't expect other actual work that matters to academics to get done. Just like the dyslexic kid's issue with getting all the language arts teaching plus dyslexia fit into a school day, the school board can only focus on so many things.

The people choosing books for libraries are librarians, not SB members. The people getting their panties in a bunch over whatever they perceive as inappropriate, are all right wingers. Everything was fine, until these people started making a fuss over books that kids likely wouldn't have even heard of, if they hadn't brought them up. The people wasting everyone's time, is those people making a fuss over books and expecting that they be banned.

Personally, I do not ban books for my child. She is free to read whatever she wants. If you don't want your kid to read something, take it up with your kid. I'm not about to tell you that you shouldn't do that. It's not something that the SB's time should be wasted on. Therefore, when someone running for the SB makes it just about the entirety of their platform, it's not someone I take seriously, or want anywhere near a SB. If they're wasting everyone's time as a non-SB member, I can only imagine how much more they would, if they're on a SB.

So school porn is good as long as it's stealth porn kept on the down low.

It’s not porn no matter how many times you repeat that RWNJ talking point.

So anything goes. Got it.

Not true at all. You sound like a petulant child.

Grow up.

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Anonymous wrote:Repubs should have stayed away from book banning and crucifying trans kids. As well as slamming equity like it is a slur.

Maybe they would have had a chance.

exactly I would not vote for anyone who supports book banning or crucifying any kids because of who they are.

You sound like my retired parents who go on and on about the book banning they see on the news. This is such a non issue for my kids. I can’t remember the last time they took out a book from the school library (high school and middle schoolers) or possibly even went into a school library. We are thinking of ordering some of these books as presents for my parents for Christmas, so they can have a copy of the books they are so upset over possibly being banned.

Oh you are one of those people who had breakfast and, because of that, think there are no starving people in the world. . . . it IS a problem

But not a large problem if most students aren't even using the library. Not a daily problem. There are bigger issues in FCPS is all. This isn't something that people should be aligning their vote on either republican or democrat.

Book banning is the work of authoritarian regimes and a number of republican school board candidates made it part of their campaign platform. Yes, I will align my vote with candidates who aren't banning books and will oppose those candidates who spew hate against our trans and LGBTQ students.

Your overwhelming support those books is a little bizarre. It was a stupid argument on the right to bring up, but equally stupid of the left to meet their fire. They were comic books with pictures of adults doing sex acts with minors. If that's how you want to focus your energy as to what the school board should focus on when kids don't even go to the library or usually read these books, then don't expect other actual work that matters to academics to get done. Just like the dyslexic kid's issue with getting all the language arts teaching plus dyslexia fit into a school day, the school board can only focus on so many things.

The people choosing books for libraries are librarians, not SB members. The people getting their panties in a bunch over whatever they perceive as inappropriate, are all right wingers. Everything was fine, until these people started making a fuss over books that kids likely wouldn't have even heard of, if they hadn't brought them up. The people wasting everyone's time, is those people making a fuss over books and expecting that they be banned.

Personally, I do not ban books for my child. She is free to read whatever she wants. If you don't want your kid to read something, take it up with your kid. I'm not about to tell you that you shouldn't do that. It's not something that the SB's time should be wasted on. Therefore, when someone running for the SB makes it just about the entirety of their platform, it's not someone I take seriously, or want anywhere near a SB. If they're wasting everyone's time as a non-SB member, I can only imagine how much more they would, if they're on a SB.

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Not to mention there is a long-standing community review process in place for anyone who has a problem with any book in the library. No need to grandstand and make it a big deal if you think it should be addressed. It shows that these are people who are not serious about governing.

Curious. Did this issue start with this process and they were denied any change or was it grandstanding to begin with? I guess either way, the way to fix an issue like this if you don't like the outcome is to run an opponent who will give you a different response. But did they start with any legitimate channels or just blow up this issue out of proportion?

Imagine if the committee that governs this process was dominated by left wing types. Oh wait, it is. This is why these disturbing GRAPHIC books are in the libraries.

The 65% liberal county is telling the other 35% to go pound sand. And many conservatives are departing because of this. Can you blame them?

That’s how elections work. I know republicans and struggle with this. Maybe you can storm the fairfax government center.

Don’t give them any ideas. Their candidates were giving out guns.

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Anonymous wrote:Repubs should have stayed away from book banning and crucifying trans kids. As well as slamming equity like it is a slur.

Maybe they would have had a chance.

exactly I would not vote for anyone who supports book banning or crucifying any kids because of who they are.

You sound like my retired parents who go on and on about the book banning they see on the news. This is such a non issue for my kids. I can’t remember the last time they took out a book from the school library (high school and middle schoolers) or possibly even went into a school library. We are thinking of ordering some of these books as presents for my parents for Christmas, so they can have a copy of the books they are so upset over possibly being banned.

Oh you are one of those people who had breakfast and, because of that, think there are no starving people in the world. . . . it IS a problem

But not a large problem if most students aren't even using the library. Not a daily problem. There are bigger issues in FCPS is all. This isn't something that people should be aligning their vote on either republican or democrat.

Book banning is the work of authoritarian regimes and a number of republican school board candidates made it part of their campaign platform. Yes, I will align my vote with candidates who aren't banning books and will oppose those candidates who spew hate against our trans and LGBTQ students.

Your overwhelming support those books is a little bizarre. It was a stupid argument on the right to bring up, but equally stupid of the left to meet their fire. They were comic books with pictures of adults doing sex acts with minors. If that's how you want to focus your energy as to what the school board should focus on when kids don't even go to the library or usually read these books, then don't expect other actual work that matters to academics to get done. Just like the dyslexic kid's issue with getting all the language arts teaching plus dyslexia fit into a school day, the school board can only focus on so many things.

The people choosing books for libraries are librarians, not SB members. The people getting their panties in a bunch over whatever they perceive as inappropriate, are all right wingers. Everything was fine, until these people started making a fuss over books that kids likely wouldn't have even heard of, if they hadn't brought them up. The people wasting everyone's time, is those people making a fuss over books and expecting that they be banned.

Personally, I do not ban books for my child. She is free to read whatever she wants. If you don't want your kid to read something, take it up with your kid. I'm not about to tell you that you shouldn't do that. It's not something that the SB's time should be wasted on. Therefore, when someone running for the SB makes it just about the entirety of their platform, it's not someone I take seriously, or want anywhere near a SB. If they're wasting everyone's time as a non-SB member, I can only imagine how much more they would, if they're on a SB.

So school porn is good as long as it's stealth porn kept on the down low.

It’s not porn no matter how many times you repeat that RWNJ talking point.

So anything goes. Got it.

DP: It isn't porn--it wasn't meant to promote sexual arousal, both books involved a person reflecting on their experiences--and in fact reflecting on how they had sexual experiences that were troublesome to them. Something some teens can relate to and would benefit from reading about. Some parents are fine with it and think their teens can benefit about reading books that include honest accounts of how other people feel about sex. Other parents feel they go too far--especially since one was a graphic novel.

But the bigger point is if you think it's not appropriate--and I can totally understand that-- there is already a process in place for challenge. The book challenge process has been a fixture in school libraries across the country for decades. If this isn't enough, maybe we should think about there being a section of the library where there are more questionable books that some in the community support and some object to, that you need parental permission to access. But instead Fox news decided to find offensive books and make a big deal out of them and moms 4 liberty try to make it a political act and make it look like the left supports porn for kids. Net result--a lot more of your kids find out about and are interested in the books in question--not the aim the protestors were supposedly looking for--and you find out in elections that there are more people who are against book bans and being told they support giving porn to their kids etc. There are reasonable ways to work out differences, but none of the Republicans opted to take that path.

Well said. Not that PP will bother to read it.

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Anonymous wrote:Repubs should have stayed away from book banning and crucifying trans kids. As well as slamming equity like it is a slur.

Maybe they would have had a chance.

exactly I would not vote for anyone who supports book banning or crucifying any kids because of who they are.

You sound like my retired parents who go on and on about the book banning they see on the news. This is such a non issue for my kids. I can’t remember the last time they took out a book from the school library (high school and middle schoolers) or possibly even went into a school library. We are thinking of ordering some of these books as presents for my parents for Christmas, so they can have a copy of the books they are so upset over possibly being banned.

Oh you are one of those people who had breakfast and, because of that, think there are no starving people in the world. . . . it IS a problem

But not a large problem if most students aren't even using the library. Not a daily problem. There are bigger issues in FCPS is all. This isn't something that people should be aligning their vote on either republican or democrat.

Book banning is the work of authoritarian regimes and a number of republican school board candidates made it part of their campaign platform. Yes, I will align my vote with candidates who aren't banning books and will oppose those candidates who spew hate against our trans and LGBTQ students.

Your overwhelming support those books is a little bizarre. It was a stupid argument on the right to bring up, but equally stupid of the left to meet their fire. They were comic books with pictures of adults doing sex acts with minors. If that's how you want to focus your energy as to what the school board should focus on when kids don't even go to the library or usually read these books, then don't expect other actual work that matters to academics to get done. Just like the dyslexic kid's issue with getting all the language arts teaching plus dyslexia fit into a school day, the school board can only focus on so many things.

The people choosing books for libraries are librarians, not SB members. The people getting their panties in a bunch over whatever they perceive as inappropriate, are all right wingers. Everything was fine, until these people started making a fuss over books that kids likely wouldn't have even heard of, if they hadn't brought them up. The people wasting everyone's time, is those people making a fuss over books and expecting that they be banned.

Personally, I do not ban books for my child. She is free to read whatever she wants. If you don't want your kid to read something, take it up with your kid. I'm not about to tell you that you shouldn't do that. It's not something that the SB's time should be wasted on. Therefore, when someone running for the SB makes it just about the entirety of their platform, it's not someone I take seriously, or want anywhere near a SB. If they're wasting everyone's time as a non-SB member, I can only imagine how much more they would, if they're on a SB.

So school porn is good as long as it's stealth porn kept on the down low.

It’s not porn no matter how many times you repeat that RWNJ talking point.

So anything goes. Got it.

DP: It isn't porn--it wasn't meant to promote sexual arousal, both books involved a person reflecting on their experiences--and in fact reflecting on how they had sexual experiences that were troublesome to them. Something some teens can relate to and would benefit from reading about. Some parents are fine with it and think their teens can benefit about reading books that include honest accounts of how other people feel about sex. Other parents feel they go too far--especially since one was a graphic novel.

But the bigger point is if you think it's not appropriate--and I can totally understand that-- there is already a process in place for challenge. The book challenge process has been a fixture in school libraries across the country for decades. If this isn't enough, maybe we should think about there being a section of the library where there are more questionable books that some in the community support and some object to, that you need parental permission to access. But instead Fox news decided to find offensive books and make a big deal out of them and moms 4 liberty try to make it a political act and make it look like the left supports porn for kids. Net result--a lot more of your kids find out about and are interested in the books in question--not the aim the protestors were supposedly looking for--and you find out in elections that there are more people who are against book bans and being told they support giving porn to their kids etc. There are reasonable ways to work out differences, but none of the Republicans opted to take that path.

Well said. Not that PP will bother to read it.

Read it. But the process is, if not broken, certainly slanted. The committee is made up of people bent in one direction. That is the result of the continued domination by one party of the school system. So yes, there is a process, but the results are pretty much predetermined.

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Anonymous wrote:Repubs should have stayed away from book banning and crucifying trans kids. As well as slamming equity like it is a slur.

Maybe they would have had a chance.

exactly I would not vote for anyone who supports book banning or crucifying any kids because of who they are.

You sound like my retired parents who go on and on about the book banning they see on the news. This is such a non issue for my kids. I can’t remember the last time they took out a book from the school library (high school and middle schoolers) or possibly even went into a school library. We are thinking of ordering some of these books as presents for my parents for Christmas, so they can have a copy of the books they are so upset over possibly being banned.

Oh you are one of those people who had breakfast and, because of that, think there are no starving people in the world. . . . it IS a problem

But not a large problem if most students aren't even using the library. Not a daily problem. There are bigger issues in FCPS is all. This isn't something that people should be aligning their vote on either republican or democrat.

Book banning is the work of authoritarian regimes and a number of republican school board candidates made it part of their campaign platform. Yes, I will align my vote with candidates who aren't banning books and will oppose those candidates who spew hate against our trans and LGBTQ students.

Your overwhelming support those books is a little bizarre. It was a stupid argument on the right to bring up, but equally stupid of the left to meet their fire. They were comic books with pictures of adults doing sex acts with minors. If that's how you want to focus your energy as to what the school board should focus on when kids don't even go to the library or usually read these books, then don't expect other actual work that matters to academics to get done. Just like the dyslexic kid's issue with getting all the language arts teaching plus dyslexia fit into a school day, the school board can only focus on so many things.

The people choosing books for libraries are librarians, not SB members. The people getting their panties in a bunch over whatever they perceive as inappropriate, are all right wingers. Everything was fine, until these people started making a fuss over books that kids likely wouldn't have even heard of, if they hadn't brought them up. The people wasting everyone's time, is those people making a fuss over books and expecting that they be banned.

Personally, I do not ban books for my child. She is free to read whatever she wants. If you don't want your kid to read something, take it up with your kid. I'm not about to tell you that you shouldn't do that. It's not something that the SB's time should be wasted on. Therefore, when someone running for the SB makes it just about the entirety of their platform, it's not someone I take seriously, or want anywhere near a SB. If they're wasting everyone's time as a non-SB member, I can only imagine how much more they would, if they're on a SB.

So school porn is good as long as it's stealth porn kept on the down low.

It’s not porn no matter how many times you repeat that RWNJ talking point.

So anything goes. Got it.

DP: It isn't porn--it wasn't meant to promote sexual arousal, both books involved a person reflecting on their experiences--and in fact reflecting on how they had sexual experiences that were troublesome to them. Something some teens can relate to and would benefit from reading about. Some parents are fine with it and think their teens can benefit about reading books that include honest accounts of how other people feel about sex. Other parents feel they go too far--especially since one was a graphic novel.

But the bigger point is if you think it's not appropriate--and I can totally understand that-- there is already a process in place for challenge. The book challenge process has been a fixture in school libraries across the country for decades. If this isn't enough, maybe we should think about there being a section of the library where there are more questionable books that some in the community support and some object to, that you need parental permission to access. But instead Fox news decided to find offensive books and make a big deal out of them and moms 4 liberty try to make it a political act and make it look like the left supports porn for kids. Net result--a lot more of your kids find out about and are interested in the books in question--not the aim the protestors were supposedly looking for--and you find out in elections that there are more people who are against book bans and being told they support giving porn to their kids etc. There are reasonable ways to work out differences, but none of the Republicans opted to take that path.

Well said. Not that PP will bother to read it.

Read it. But the process is, if not broken, certainly slanted. The committee is made up of people bent in one direction. That is the result of the continued domination by one party of the school system. So yes, there is a process, but the results are pretty much predetermined.

Did you or any of the objectors submit any books for review before the 'outrage' at the SB meetings?

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Anonymous wrote:Repubs should have stayed away from book banning and crucifying trans kids. As well as slamming equity like it is a slur.

Maybe they would have had a chance.

exactly I would not vote for anyone who supports book banning or crucifying any kids because of who they are.

You sound like my retired parents who go on and on about the book banning they see on the news. This is such a non issue for my kids. I can’t remember the last time they took out a book from the school library (high school and middle schoolers) or possibly even went into a school library. We are thinking of ordering some of these books as presents for my parents for Christmas, so they can have a copy of the books they are so upset over possibly being banned.

Oh you are one of those people who had breakfast and, because of that, think there are no starving people in the world. . . . it IS a problem

But not a large problem if most students aren't even using the library. Not a daily problem. There are bigger issues in FCPS is all. This isn't something that people should be aligning their vote on either republican or democrat.

Book banning is the work of authoritarian regimes and a number of republican school board candidates made it part of their campaign platform. Yes, I will align my vote with candidates who aren't banning books and will oppose those candidates who spew hate against our trans and LGBTQ students.

DP. Making sure libraries carry age-appropriate books is in no way "banning" books. And please list examples of "spewing hate against our trans and LGBTQ students." You - or another poster - has made this idiotic claim repeatedly, yet refuse to provide any examples. Huh, I wonder why?

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Anonymous wrote:One of the Republican candidates was at my school today. She had a truck with signs focused on the use of pronouns, keeping girls girls, and other similar nonsense. I am a moderate, keep the right wing nut jobs away from the ballot and I might vote for a moderate R. Run people more concerned about a kids pronouns, banning books, and the like and I am not voting for them.

This isn’t hard. Run on reasonable changes and I’ll listen. Run on MAGA talking points and I am not voting for you.

Yes, exactly

Times 1000. I’m in Mclean and haven’t been thrilled with our representation but I’m not voting for some stealth MAGA takeover of the SB. Run a boring technocratic candidate who wants to focus on school issues alone and isn’t going to get sucked into all the social issues, etc…and who frankly isn’t really focused on aligning with either party and I’d totally vote for them.

So then, none of the previous 12 candidates would have fit this criteria. Let's hope the new board does.

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Anonymous wrote:Repubs should have stayed away from book banning and crucifying trans kids. As well as slamming equity like it is a slur.

Maybe they would have had a chance.

exactly I would not vote for anyone who supports book banning or crucifying any kids because of who they are.

You sound like my retired parents who go on and on about the book banning they see on the news. This is such a non issue for my kids. I can’t remember the last time they took out a book from the school library (high school and middle schoolers) or possibly even went into a school library. We are thinking of ordering some of these books as presents for my parents for Christmas, so they can have a copy of the books they are so upset over possibly being banned.

Oh you are one of those people who had breakfast and, because of that, think there are no starving people in the world. . . . it IS a problem

But not a large problem if most students aren't even using the library. Not a daily problem. There are bigger issues in FCPS is all. This isn't something that people should be aligning their vote on either republican or democrat.

Book banning is the work of authoritarian regimes and a number of republican school board candidates made it part of their campaign platform. Yes, I will align my vote with candidates who aren't banning books and will oppose those candidates who spew hate against our trans and LGBTQ students.

Your overwhelming support those books is a little bizarre. It was a stupid argument on the right to bring up, but equally stupid of the left to meet their fire. They were comic books with pictures of adults doing sex acts with minors. If that's how you want to focus your energy as to what the school board should focus on when kids don't even go to the library or usually read these books, then don't expect other actual work that matters to academics to get done. Just like the dyslexic kid's issue with getting all the language arts teaching plus dyslexia fit into a school day, the school board can only focus on so many things.

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Anonymous wrote:Repubs should have stayed away from book banning and crucifying trans kids. As well as slamming equity like it is a slur.

Maybe they would have had a chance.

exactly I would not vote for anyone who supports book banning or crucifying any kids because of who they are.

You sound like my retired parents who go on and on about the book banning they see on the news. This is such a non issue for my kids. I can’t remember the last time they took out a book from the school library (high school and middle schoolers) or possibly even went into a school library. We are thinking of ordering some of these books as presents for my parents for Christmas, so they can have a copy of the books they are so upset over possibly being banned.

Oh you are one of those people who had breakfast and, because of that, think there are no starving people in the world. . . . it IS a problem

But not a large problem if most students aren't even using the library. Not a daily problem. There are bigger issues in FCPS is all. This isn't something that people should be aligning their vote on either republican or democrat.

Book banning is the work of authoritarian regimes and a number of republican school board candidates made it part of their campaign platform. Yes, I will align my vote with candidates who aren't banning books and will oppose those candidates who spew hate against our trans and LGBTQ students.

DP. Making sure libraries carry age-appropriate books is in no way "banning" books. And please list examples of "spewing hate against our trans and LGBTQ students." You - or another poster - has made this idiotic claim repeatedly, yet refuse to provide any examples. Huh, I wonder why?

It’s hateful because (a) many of those books are appropriate for HS and (b) you’re singling out just the LGBTQ books.

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Anonymous wrote:Repubs should have stayed away from book banning and crucifying trans kids. As well as slamming equity like it is a slur.

Maybe they would have had a chance.

exactly I would not vote for anyone who supports book banning or crucifying any kids because of who they are.

You sound like my retired parents who go on and on about the book banning they see on the news. This is such a non issue for my kids. I can’t remember the last time they took out a book from the school library (high school and middle schoolers) or possibly even went into a school library. We are thinking of ordering some of these books as presents for my parents for Christmas, so they can have a copy of the books they are so upset over possibly being banned.

Oh you are one of those people who had breakfast and, because of that, think there are no starving people in the world. . . . it IS a problem

But not a large problem if most students aren't even using the library. Not a daily problem. There are bigger issues in FCPS is all. This isn't something that people should be aligning their vote on either republican or democrat.

Book banning is the work of authoritarian regimes and a number of republican school board candidates made it part of their campaign platform. Yes, I will align my vote with candidates who aren't banning books and will oppose those candidates who spew hate against our trans and LGBTQ students.

Your overwhelming support those books is a little bizarre. It was a stupid argument on the right to bring up, but equally stupid of the left to meet their fire. They were comic books with pictures of adults doing sex acts with minors. If that's how you want to focus your energy as to what the school board should focus on when kids don't even go to the library or usually read these books, then don't expect other actual work that matters to academics to get done. Just like the dyslexic kid's issue with getting all the language arts teaching plus dyslexia fit into a school day, the school board can only focus on so many things.

The people choosing books for libraries are librarians, not SB members. The people getting their panties in a bunch over whatever they perceive as inappropriate, are all right wingers. Everything was fine, until these people started making a fuss over books that kids likely wouldn't have even heard of, if they hadn't brought them up. The people wasting everyone's time, is those people making a fuss over books and expecting that they be banned.

Personally, I do not ban books for my child. She is free to read whatever she wants. If you don't want your kid to read something, take it up with your kid. I'm not about to tell you that you shouldn't do that. It's not something that the SB's time should be wasted on. Therefore, when someone running for the SB makes it just about the entirety of their platform, it's not someone I take seriously, or want anywhere near a SB. If they're wasting everyone's time as a non-SB member, I can only imagine how much more they would, if they're on a SB.

So school porn is good as long as it's stealth porn kept on the down low.

It’s not porn no matter how many times you repeat that RWNJ talking point.

So anything goes. Got it.

DP: It isn't porn--it wasn't meant to promote sexual arousal, both books involved a person reflecting on their experiences--and in fact reflecting on how they had sexual experiences that were troublesome to them. Something some teens can relate to and would benefit from reading about. Some parents are fine with it and think their teens can benefit about reading books that include honest accounts of how other people feel about sex. Other parents feel they go too far--especially since one was a graphic novel.

But the bigger point is if you think it's not appropriate--and I can totally understand that-- there is already a process in place for challenge. The book challenge process has been a fixture in school libraries across the country for decades. If this isn't enough, maybe we should think about there being a section of the library where there are more questionable books that some in the community support and some object to, that you need parental permission to access. But instead Fox news decided to find offensive books and make a big deal out of them and moms 4 liberty try to make it a political act and make it look like the left supports porn for kids. Net result--a lot more of your kids find out about and are interested in the books in question--not the aim the protestors were supposedly looking for--and you find out in elections that there are more people who are against book bans and being told they support giving porn to their kids etc. There are reasonable ways to work out differences, but none of the Republicans opted to take that path.

Well said. Not that PP will bother to read it.

Read it. But the process is, if not broken, certainly slanted. The committee is made up of people bent in one direction. That is the result of the continued domination by one party of the school system. So yes, there is a process, but the results are pretty much predetermined.

Parents can volunteer to be on the committee, maybe Rs can try to do that.

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Anonymous wrote:Repubs should have stayed away from book banning and crucifying trans kids. As well as slamming equity like it is a slur.

Maybe they would have had a chance.

exactly I would not vote for anyone who supports book banning or crucifying any kids because of who they are.

You sound like my retired parents who go on and on about the book banning they see on the news. This is such a non issue for my kids. I can’t remember the last time they took out a book from the school library (high school and middle schoolers) or possibly even went into a school library. We are thinking of ordering some of these books as presents for my parents for Christmas, so they can have a copy of the books they are so upset over possibly being banned.

Oh you are one of those people who had breakfast and, because of that, think there are no starving people in the world. . . . it IS a problem

But not a large problem if most students aren't even using the library. Not a daily problem. There are bigger issues in FCPS is all. This isn't something that people should be aligning their vote on either republican or democrat.

Book banning is the work of authoritarian regimes and a number of republican school board candidates made it part of their campaign platform. Yes, I will align my vote with candidates who aren't banning books and will oppose those candidates who spew hate against our trans and LGBTQ students.

Your overwhelming support those books is a little bizarre. It was a stupid argument on the right to bring up, but equally stupid of the left to meet their fire. They were comic books with pictures of adults doing sex acts with minors. If that's how you want to focus your energy as to what the school board should focus on when kids don't even go to the library or usually read these books, then don't expect other actual work that matters to academics to get done. Just like the dyslexic kid's issue with getting all the language arts teaching plus dyslexia fit into a school day, the school board can only focus on so many things.

+100

Greek pottery is “porn” now?

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Anonymous wrote:One of the Republican candidates was at my school today. She had a truck with signs focused on the use of pronouns, keeping girls girls, and other similar nonsense. I am a moderate, keep the right wing nut jobs away from the ballot and I might vote for a moderate R. Run people more concerned about a kids pronouns, banning books, and the like and I am not voting for them.

This isn’t hard. Run on reasonable changes and I’ll listen. Run on MAGA talking points and I am not voting for you.

Yes, exactly

Times 1000. I’m in Mclean and haven’t been thrilled with our representation but I’m not voting for some stealth MAGA takeover of the SB. Run a boring technocratic candidate who wants to focus on school issues alone and isn’t going to get sucked into all the social issues, etc…and who frankly isn’t really focused on aligning with either party and I’d totally vote for them.

So then, none of the previous 12 candidates would have fit this criteria. Let's hope the new board does.

The independents didn't do well in this election so you can't say that anyone like this would win. They performed the worst.

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Anonymous wrote:Repubs should have stayed away from book banning and crucifying trans kids. As well as slamming equity like it is a slur.

Maybe they would have had a chance.

exactly I would not vote for anyone who supports book banning or crucifying any kids because of who they are.

You sound like my retired parents who go on and on about the book banning they see on the news. This is such a non issue for my kids. I can’t remember the last time they took out a book from the school library (high school and middle schoolers) or possibly even went into a school library. We are thinking of ordering some of these books as presents for my parents for Christmas, so they can have a copy of the books they are so upset over possibly being banned.

Oh you are one of those people who had breakfast and, because of that, think there are no starving people in the world. . . . it IS a problem

But not a large problem if most students aren't even using the library. Not a daily problem. There are bigger issues in FCPS is all. This isn't something that people should be aligning their vote on either republican or democrat.

Book banning is the work of authoritarian regimes and a number of republican school board candidates made it part of their campaign platform. Yes, I will align my vote with candidates who aren't banning books and will oppose those candidates who spew hate against our trans and LGBTQ students.

Your overwhelming support those books is a little bizarre. It was a stupid argument on the right to bring up, but equally stupid of the left to meet their fire. They were comic books with pictures of adults doing sex acts with minors. If that's how you want to focus your energy as to what the school board should focus on when kids don't even go to the library or usually read these books, then don't expect other actual work that matters to academics to get done. Just like the dyslexic kid's issue with getting all the language arts teaching plus dyslexia fit into a school day, the school board can only focus on so many things.

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It's not a universal support for the books--it's a support for trusting the community process for review. If they are clearly problematic, they won't hold up to challenge. But the books flagged included a lot of books I have zero problems with and don't want banned and I also don't like the faux outrage surrounded by publicizing them rather than engaging with the schools. And, as I understand it, the graphic novel flagged in FCPS did not depict adults with minors--that was in a regular text book where someone described memories of experiences of abuse in detail.