What book is this? And is it in elementary libraries? Or high school? Middle school? |
Practice???? |
PP was misrepresenting the book. Why do Rs lie so much? |
11 year olds aren’t in HS. More lies. |
PP can’t answer because they didn’t actually read the story. They’re just parroting what they heard from some RWNJ source. |
The book is “Gender Queer” and the current school board (and likely all dem candidates running now), fought vigorously to keep it in school libraries. I will link some history in a moment, but before that, someone responded in a different thread with background: “Schools in FCPS are both a place to educate minor children, and a place of employment by adults. I think a good starting point for deciding which books are available inside of classrooms and libraries is: 1) For students, if a book contains graphic images or explicit text that would result in an adult being charged with a crime against children if they showed it to the child outside of school, and especially without the parents explicit informed consent, then the book should not be allowed in school. Graphic novels such as Gender Queer would fall under this category. If your 50 year old neighbor Joe decided to read a book full of drawings of blow jobs and other explicit photos to your 13 year old son or daughter, especially encouraging them to keep this info away from you their parent, he would likely be arrested. This should be a basic, common sense standard in public school. And 2) If a book contains graphic images and text such that if a Virginia state or Fairfax County government employee had it out at work and showed or distributed it to coworkers and especially subordinates, willing or unwilling, would result in the state or county government employee being disciplined or fired for sexual harrassment, then the county employees of FCPS should not be allowed to share that book with minor children in FCPS in any capacity, be it in the library, in the classroom, or sharing with an individual student. Use the state and county employment standards for what material an adult employee is allowed to share in the workplace, and apply this to our govt employee teachers, counselors, support staff and principals. This should not even be a point of contention unless you are a predator.” |
Some background on the issue, through the DCUM-lens:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/120/1127573.page#24995757 |
Do your research. It's in middle school libraries and high school libraries, despite author now backtracking and saying that her book was for high school and up. Whatever, it's all silly because the content is still porn. It's just GAY porn so for some reason everyone is defensive of it as an LGBT book. I'm not that hung up on it in general b/c the kids all have phones in their pockets and can stumble on this stuff at any time if they want to. And I'm all about anyone being able to access porn if they want to in the public library (would prefer age restricted to 18 and up), but I definitely get that it's weird to have pornographic drawings available in the SCHOOL library. |
What is weird is how vigorously the current school board fought to keep pornography (gay, straight or otherwise) in school libraries where, as pointed out above: if your creepy 50 year-old neighbor gave pornography to your 14 year-old and tried to hide it from you, that person would rightly be arrested. But it’s also a sad fact that every 14 year-old with a phone has access to internet porn and has probably seen some by that age. It doesn’t make porn OK for kids though. It’s really destructive and so demeaning, really. |
Yes |
Which FCPS middle school has this book? And it's not porn. You haven't read the book and/or don't understand the definition of porn. |
Porn is bad for kids. This book is not porn. |
Completely agree. |
Why then would you be arrested if you shared it with your subordinates? |
The book shouldn’t be in any school library. It’s overly sexual. If you can’t understand that then I don’t want you on a school board. This isn’t too hard to understand. |