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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel terrible that school librarians are now going to be targets of this insane witch hunt. It is all for politics and all for show and yet it is going to create enormous stress, interfere with the important work that they do, and cause real harm to people.

It is so clear that these people don’t actually believe anything that they say and they don’t care what harm they cause.  They know children are in the audience and yet read passages that they know are intended for a young adult audience. Elementary schoolers are not highschoolers. Those passages are not in any books in an elementary school library.  But they don’t care, because it’s all just a big stunt. Conflating high school readers with kindergarten readers is precisely what they do. And they don’t care that I kindergarten or is actually listening, because actually caring about children is not the point. Ginning up political outrage is the point.  They disgust me.[/quote]

DP.  Start by assuming that parents do care about their children.  That their actions are not purely political or performative.

It'll help you to understand them and will lower your blood pressure.[/quote]

Parents care for their children.  But this woman was not a parent of an FCPS child.  These were political agitators who heard about a controversial book in another district and decided to make a hubbub about it to gin up outrage.

These was no “protecting” children involved.  She harmed children by reading out loud passages that were age inappropriate.  She didn’t care…she kept plowing on despite the children in the room because she got off on the shock and outrage and attention she was getting.

If someone seriously has an objection to a book, there is a formal process for challenging the book.  It involves actually reading the entire work, which I can almost guarantee this person did not do.  Because that wasn’t the point.  The point was getting attention.[/quote]

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