Why are book banners showing up at FCPS SB meetings

[Anonymous]

TOTALLY IRRELEVANT if the woman in the video is an actress, Republican or from the moon. IT IS ABOUT what is APPPROPRIATE for CHILDREN to learn in school. While the Chinese spent 12+ hours a day leaning academic topics- math, science, etc. we in the US are creating a generation of anxious, confused, illiterate, nonskilled people who WILL BE the SERVANTS to the wealthy and Chinese.
My children do NOT need to learn about about their teachers' politics or that someone's children have 2 mommies or 2 daddies or a polyamorous triad for parents. (Neither do I - don't know, don't care)
My children need to be able to read and write English (including spelling & script!), do math (including memorizing their multiplication tables and mental math), understand civics and American History (including the Declaration, Bill of Rights & Constitution, and even what socialist and communism really are and why Americans have embraced capitalism) and other academic subjects, including science.
Never in a million years did I think I would home school my children, but that is what I am doing. A group of my friends have decided we are done with the BS & have formed our own school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:TOTALLY IRRELEVANT if the woman in the video is an actress, Republican or from the moon. IT IS ABOUT what is APPPROPRIATE for CHILDREN to learn in school. While the Chinese spent 12+ hours a day leaning academic topics- math, science, etc. we in the US are creating a generation of anxious, confused, illiterate, nonskilled people who WILL BE the SERVANTS to the wealthy and Chinese.
My children do NOT need to learn about about their teachers' politics or that someone's children have 2 mommies or 2 daddies or a polyamorous triad for parents. (Neither do I - don't know, don't care)
My children need to be able to read and write English (including spelling & script!), do math (including memorizing their multiplication tables and mental math), understand civics and American History (including the Declaration, Bill of Rights & Constitution, and even what socialist and communism really are and why Americans have embraced capitalism) and other academic subjects, including science.
Never in a million years did I think I would home school my children, but that is what I am doing. A group of my friends have decided we are done with the BS & have formed our own school.

Heather Has Two Mommies (or whatever that book is called) is just a book about a family.

Books for children depicting and promoting sex acts are ENTIRELY different.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:TOTALLY IRRELEVANT if the woman in the video is an actress, Republican or from the moon. IT IS ABOUT what is APPPROPRIATE for CHILDREN to learn in school. While the Chinese spent 12+ hours a day leaning academic topics- math, science, etc. we in the US are creating a generation of anxious, confused, illiterate, nonskilled people who WILL BE the SERVANTS to the wealthy and Chinese.
My children do NOT need to learn about about their teachers' politics or that someone's children have 2 mommies or 2 daddies or a polyamorous triad for parents. (Neither do I - don't know, don't care)
My children need to be able to read and write English (including spelling & script!), do math (including memorizing their multiplication tables and mental math), understand civics and American History (including the Declaration, Bill of Rights & Constitution, and even what socialist and communism really are and why Americans have embraced capitalism) and other academic subjects, including science.
Never in a million years did I think I would home school my children, but that is what I am doing. A group of my friends have decided we are done with the BS & have formed our own school.

Heather Has Two Mommies (or whatever that book is called) is just a book about a family.

Books for children depicting and promoting sex acts are ENTIRELY different.

Lord in Heaven. There is nothing in either book “promoting sex acts”.

And to the PP above…nothing in this or any school library book is taking away from your child learning multiplication tables. Complete reactionary nutjobs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:TOTALLY IRRELEVANT if the woman in the video is an actress, Republican or from the moon. IT IS ABOUT what is APPPROPRIATE for CHILDREN to learn in school. While the Chinese spent 12+ hours a day leaning academic topics- math, science, etc. we in the US are creating a generation of anxious, confused, illiterate, nonskilled people who WILL BE the SERVANTS to the wealthy and Chinese.
My children do NOT need to learn about about their teachers' politics or that someone's children have 2 mommies or 2 daddies or a polyamorous triad for parents. (Neither do I - don't know, don't care)
My children need to be able to read and write English (including spelling & script!), do math (including memorizing their multiplication tables and mental math), understand civics and American History (including the Declaration, Bill of Rights & Constitution, and even what socialist and communism really are and why Americans have embraced capitalism) and other academic subjects, including science.
Never in a million years did I think I would home school my children, but that is what I am doing. A group of my friends have decided we are done with the BS & have formed our own school.

Heather Has Two Mommies (or whatever that book is called) is just a book about a family.

Books for children depicting and promoting sex acts are ENTIRELY different.

Lord in Heaven. There is nothing in either book “promoting sex acts”.

And to the PP above…nothing in this or any school library book is taking away from your child learning multiplication tables. Complete reactionary nutjobs.

Np here clearly you haven't seen the books but they show and depict sex acts aka pornography. You are clearly not a parent to be upset. In the rare event you are a parent well, please keep your kids out of public schools since you have no filter nor compass as a parent

[Anonymous]

No issues with stuff like “Heather has 2 mommies” but the languages and images in question here are totally different.

And no one is calling to “ban” them entirely like from libraries. It is just whether books graphically (very graphically) depicting 9 year olds giving each other blow jobs belong in the school

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone list the books in question? The only title I've seen is Lawn Boy. Are there others? I'd like to read them for myself.

Also, to clarify, these books are in some of the high school libraries, but they aren't being used a teaching material in class? That's a pretty big difference to me.

The other book pulled for review is Gender Queer (a graphic novel). Correct, they are available in a handful of high school/secondary libraries, not being used (to my knowledge) in a classroom.

The books should be required reading for the book banning parents. Maybe they’d actually learn something about human development and relationships. Since many are clearly lacking.

Or maybe they’d prefer not to have their money spent on books that normalize sexual activity involving 4th graders, you delusional, pretentious cretin.

Exploring bodies is a normal, healthy thing for kids.

Didn’t you “play doctor” when you were a kid?

Maybe not. That might explain why you’re so screwed up now…

Uh I had an awesome doctor's kit and pretended to be a doctor. There was nothing sexual about it. What kind of depraved game were you playing when you "played doctor?" NP.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone list the books in question? The only title I've seen is Lawn Boy. Are there others? I'd like to read them for myself.

Also, to clarify, these books are in some of the high school libraries, but they aren't being used a teaching material in class? That's a pretty big difference to me.

The other book pulled for review is Gender Queer (a graphic novel). Correct, they are available in a handful of high school/secondary libraries, not being used (to my knowledge) in a classroom.

The books should be required reading for the book banning parents. Maybe they’d actually learn something about human development and relationships. Since many are clearly lacking.

Or maybe they’d prefer not to have their money spent on books that normalize sexual activity involving 4th graders, you delusional, pretentious cretin.

Exploring bodies is a normal, healthy thing for kids.

Didn’t you “play doctor” when you were a kid?

Maybe not. That might explain why you’re so screwed up now…

Uh I had an awesome doctor's kit and pretended to be a doctor. There was nothing sexual about it. What kind of depraved game were you playing when you "played doctor?" NP.

Where we checked out various body parts.

Lol. It wasn’t depraved or even sexual at all.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:TOTALLY IRRELEVANT if the woman in the video is an actress, Republican or from the moon. IT IS ABOUT what is APPPROPRIATE for CHILDREN to learn in school. While the Chinese spent 12+ hours a day leaning academic topics- math, science, etc. we in the US are creating a generation of anxious, confused, illiterate, nonskilled people who WILL BE the SERVANTS to the wealthy and Chinese.
My children do NOT need to learn about about their teachers' politics or that someone's children have 2 mommies or 2 daddies or a polyamorous triad for parents. (Neither do I - don't know, don't care)
My children need to be able to read and write English (including spelling & script!), do math (including memorizing their multiplication tables and mental math), understand civics and American History (including the Declaration, Bill of Rights & Constitution, and even what socialist and communism really are and why Americans have embraced capitalism) and other academic subjects, including science.
Never in a million years did I think I would home school my children, but that is what I am doing. A group of my friends have decided we are done with the BS & have formed our own school.

Heather Has Two Mommies (or whatever that book is called) is just a book about a family.

Books for children depicting and promoting sex acts are ENTIRELY different.

Lord in Heaven. There is nothing in either book “promoting sex acts”.

And to the PP above…nothing in this or any school library book is taking away from your child learning multiplication tables. Complete reactionary nutjobs.

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Neither were “promoting sex acts”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No issues with stuff like “Heather has 2 mommies” but the languages and images in question here are totally different.

And no one is calling to “ban” them entirely like from libraries. It is just whether books graphically (very graphically) depicting 9 year olds giving each other blow jobs belong in the school

Tell me you haven’t read the book without telling me you haven’t read the book.

Neither book does this. So sick of these lies being spread. None of you have READ EITHER BOOK.

[Anonymous]

Where we checked out various body parts.

Lol. It wasn’t depraved or even sexual at all.

Unlike those books....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No issues with stuff like “Heather has 2 mommies” but the languages and images in question here are totally different.

And no one is calling to “ban” them entirely like from libraries. It is just whether books graphically (very graphically) depicting 9 year olds giving each other blow jobs belong in the school

Tell me you haven’t read the book without telling me you haven’t read the book.

Neither book does this. So sick of these lies being spread. None of you have READ EITHER BOOK.

No I have not read the books.
But is this not in the books? Happy to change my opinion if the very graphic visuals from this video are not from the books in question.
https://asrainvestigates.substack.com/p/fairfax-county-puts-the-x-rated-in

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No issues with stuff like “Heather has 2 mommies” but the languages and images in question here are totally different.

And no one is calling to “ban” them entirely like from libraries. It is just whether books graphically (very graphically) depicting 9 year olds giving each other blow jobs belong in the school

Parents who are up in arms about the books and think removing them is terrible and so -

if you came across videos or photos of the acts being described in the books in your child’s phone or laptop, how would you react? Would you have a talk with them regarding why porn is not appropriate? Because I think almost all of you would be upset, horrified and have that conversation. And a small minority would be ok with it. I also think this same group of parents would be livid if their older child brought home one of these books an left them in a place or even shared them with younger siblings.

I don’t get on board with the idea that these graphic novels are some kind of hallmarks of great literature so to me removing them is no big loss. Before you get so upset ask yourself if you actually think they are? Just because someone slaps an award on a book or some activist or critic likes them, it doesn’t mean they are that needed. Most literary awards of subjective anyway.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No issues with stuff like “Heather has 2 mommies” but the languages and images in question here are totally different.

And no one is calling to “ban” them entirely like from libraries. It is just whether books graphically (very graphically) depicting 9 year olds giving each other blow jobs belong in the school

Tell me you haven’t read the book without telling me you haven’t read the book.

Neither book does this. So sick of these lies being spread. None of you have READ EITHER BOOK.

No I have not read the books.
But is this not in the books? Happy to change my opinion if the very graphic visuals from this video are not from the books in question.
https://asrainvestigates.substack.com/p/fairfax-county-puts-the-x-rated-in

Those are not 9 year olds - those are young adults. Hard to tell since it’s cartoony.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:TOTALLY IRRELEVANT if the woman in the video is an actress, Republican or from the moon. IT IS ABOUT what is APPPROPRIATE for CHILDREN to learn in school. While the Chinese spent 12+ hours a day leaning academic topics- math, science, etc. we in the US are creating a generation of anxious, confused, illiterate, nonskilled people who WILL BE the SERVANTS to the wealthy and Chinese.
My children do NOT need to learn about about their teachers' politics or that someone's children have 2 mommies or 2 daddies or a polyamorous triad for parents. (Neither do I - don't know, don't care)
My children need to be able to read and write English (including spelling & script!), do math (including memorizing their multiplication tables and mental math), understand civics and American History (including the Declaration, Bill of Rights & Constitution, and even what socialist and communism really are and why Americans have embraced capitalism) and other academic subjects, including science.
Never in a million years did I think I would home school my children, but that is what I am doing. A group of my friends have decided we are done with the BS & have formed our own school.

Heather Has Two Mommies (or whatever that book is called) is just a book about a family.

Books for children depicting and promoting sex acts are ENTIRELY different.

Lord in Heaven. There is nothing in either book “promoting sex acts”.

And to the PP above…nothing in this or any school library book is taking away from your child learning multiplication tables. Complete reactionary nutjobs.

Np here clearly you haven't seen the books but they show and depict sex acts aka pornography. You are clearly not a parent to be upset. In the rare event you are a parent well, please keep your kids out of public schools since you have no filter nor compass as a parent

I **HAVE*** read the books. Both of them. Neither book is pornographic, not even close. Of course I do not want my 3rd grader checking out Gender Queer....but he is not in high school. Once he is in high school, I would not have a problem with it. The entire book itself is actually quite sensitive, and the pages that people are freaking out about, in context, depict a rare and much needed scene where two young adults negotiate consent and boundaries with each other with kindness and understanding. The page is not sexy. No one is going to be seeking it out or using it for arousal purposes....actual p*Rn is accessible with a couple of clicks on just about any non-school device.

I find it absolutely appalling that people like you are commenting when you obviously have not read either book. The whole book. It's laughable that you accuse me of not reading it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No issues with stuff like “Heather has 2 mommies” but the languages and images in question here are totally different.

And no one is calling to “ban” them entirely like from libraries. It is just whether books graphically (very graphically) depicting 9 year olds giving each other blow jobs belong in the school

Neither book graphically depicts 9 year olds giving each other blow jobs. You just keep throwing out these words as if they are actually true and you HAVE NOT READ EITHER BOOK. You aren't even describing the excerpts taken out of context correctly. Not even remotely correctly.

It's astonishing really. Life is short, and you are taking time out of your very short life to comment on an anonymous discussion board to type COMPLETELY INACCURATE THINGS. So, one of two things is going on:

1) You are emotionally triggered and care nothing about truth, accuracy, decency, or integrity.
2) You are a paid political agitator astroturfing here to amplify all these lies.

I'd actually prefer to believe it is 2 because it's too horrifying to think that there are regular, everyday Fairfax parents who are this willfully stupid and reactionary. But I fear you are #1 here. And you DON'T CARE about the fact that you have absolutely no moral compass or concern for the truth.