School Board Meeting 9/23

[Anonymous]

About 55% of kids have had sex by age 18. I just don’t see reading about it as that big of a deal.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2017/201706_NSFG.htm

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The two books
Gender Queer sextibg about being inside each other and then show one boy giving another boy a blow job. Very Clear is was penis.
Lawn Boy very graphic discription if a minor having sex with a grown man. I believe the child is 11 years old

Lawn Boy includes 2 4th graders in a sexual act with each other, not an adult.

[Anonymous]

The book is semi-autobiographical and is more about the difficulty of obtaining the American dream from the perspective of a minority. Everyone is acting like it’s 300 pages of smut.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To Kill a Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men, The Bluest Eye. All on the most challenged books of 2020. A slippery slope. https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/top10

PP, if you don’t want your kid discussing a book, opt her out.

Lady should be reviewing the curriculum and deciding what her kid can and cannot read. This is not 1950, we are NOT in the deep south, we should not be censoring books.

[Anonymous]

So did anything else happen in this school board meeting?

[Anonymous]

I wonder if Lawn Boy lady read the whole book or just that passage?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The two books
Gender Queer sextibg about being inside each other and then show one boy giving another boy a blow job. Very Clear is was penis.
Lawn Boy very graphic discription if a minor having sex with a grown man. I believe the child is 11 years old

Lawn Boy includes 2 4th graders in a sexual act with each other, not an adult.

Ohhhh…much better! Total overreaction. Oops!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So did anything else happen in this school board meeting?

Yes—they moved an action item up to a motion item. (Bus driver pay.) For the first time (ever?), TDK said something I finally agreed with having to do with (paraphrasing) the absurdity that bus drivers are getting paid more than many special ed staff. In the end she voted for the motion, but there has got to be other solutions out there. Bus drivers making $22.91-36/hour, while the direct staff make a fraction of that. No one had numbers or knew anything (Platenburg/HR guy), so consider this was just my take on it.

[Anonymous]

Until FCPS gets rid of principals who they know don’t have the best interest of the kids, I know school system isn’t right and the powers that be don’t care as long as their check is still coming

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The two books
Gender Queer sextibg about being inside each other and then show one boy giving another boy a blow job. Very Clear is was penis.
Lawn Boy very graphic discription if a minor having sex with a grown man. I believe the child is 11 years old

Lawn Boy includes 2 4th graders in a sexual act with each other, not an adult.

Ohhhh…much better! Total overreaction. Oops!

There’s also a description of a sex act with an adult. There are two sex acts written about in the first couple of pages. It gets straight into it, so to speak.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's in a Secondary School library. Are the middle school books kept separately from the high school ones?

And, I am a defender of free speech--but this is a school library where the readers are minors.

They also have choice to NOT check the book out. I feel no need to protect my HS from the word di*k. The kids are watching porn on the bus.

This is not a good thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Until FCPS gets rid of principals who they know don’t have the best interest of the kids, I know school system isn’t right and the powers that be don’t care as long as their check is still coming

This may be true. But, at least principals see students. Cleaning house should start with Gatehouse. And, every "professional educator" in Gatehouse or any other administrative position should be required to teach at least one half day of the month. That should include principals. Help the sub problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Until FCPS gets rid of principals who they know don’t have the best interest of the kids, I know school system isn’t right and the powers that be don’t care as long as their check is still coming

This may be true. But, at least principals see students. Cleaning house should start with Gatehouse. And, every "professional educator" in Gatehouse or any other administrative position should be required to teach at least one half day of the month. That should include principals. Help the sub problem.

You don’t think principals are covering classes? At my elementary, both the principal and AP cover classes at some point every week. They’re not in a classroom all day, but they’re in there at all grade levels.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow! Woman read some extremely graphic descriptions from books in some high school libraries--Board member (I think it was Chair Pekarsky) reminded her that there were childrenn in the audience and that these books were in high school libraries.
Does Board not understand that high school kids are minors?

It met my description of porn. Very graphic description of male sex acts and included pedophilia, as well.

I would not have read it out loud, but it sure got the attention. Board called a five minute recess.

You actually became sexually aroused by the material? You think the material was intended to sexually arouse?

There is a process for formally challenging a school library book. Reading aloud a book meant for an adult or young adult audience in a room with young children is NOT the process. I have no familiarity with those books but the excerpts published online don’t seem at all prurient. It’s just a stunt to lather people up and build political power on the right.

It’s clear she just went in the hunt for titles to complain about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All books that are used in English classes go through a review process that includes a committee with parents of students at the school. Additionally, all books are listed on the syllabus at the beginning of the year and parents have to sign that they have read the syllabus. You can opt your kid out of reading any of the books. Generally NBD as most schools have moved to kids reading books in literature circles (a few book chioces each unit centered around a theme). As for books in the library, you can ask your kid what they are checking out or have them pull up their library account.

Oh my God. What school does your child attend that you actually received or had access to a SYLLABUS??? And then had to sign it???