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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you all are acting like the school board here, focusing on the wrong damn things.  Your kids are going to face serious challenges in the future  - climate change, civil unrest, possible economic devastation, an ongoing pandemic.  Let the books and the school names and the other trivial stuff go.  These kids wil need to be smarter and stronger and more capable than previous generations, and right now, administrators who care more about covering their asses or advancing their careers  than actually educating children are instituting policies that ensure they will be lazier, dumber, and weaker.

It’s a book.  Let it go.  If the harshest reality your kid ever has to face is the mere *idea* or *portrayal* of gay sex or pedophilia, then he or she will have a pretty ideal life.  I don’t need to be a fortune teller to predict that more harsh realities are in their futures.  Don’t get derailed from what needs to be done by this sideshow.[/quote]

Books are not trivial when we are discussing education.

What a strange thing to say.

Since the book is not a big deal it should be no problem for the school board to remove it.  They shouldn't let something so insignificant distract the populace.[/quote]

Did I say books are trivial?  No, but I think this particular book is trivial in the larger scheme of things.  I certainly wouldn’t include it in my curriculum but I wouldn’t censor it from a HS library either.  Censorship is a slippery slope and if this book is, for whatever reason, embraced by the LGBTQ community, then asking to remove it is going to stir a hornet’s nest that distracts people from more important issues.[/quote]

There are many ways to raise awareness and sympathy for their choice. Exposing children to this type of crap to avoid infuriating a group is ludicrous. Shameful. [/quote]

Okay, then, make this your crusade - removing one book from the library.  You and your cohorts are sure to increase the sales of “Lawn Boy” all over Fairfax County.  Nothing makes a book or film more tempting to a teen than the fact it is “taboo.”[/quote]

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