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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The question is how did this parent find these two books to begin with?[/quote]

She said that she heard they were being banned in Texas so she wanted to see if any FCPS schools had them.  She hadn’t read the books.  It was just more politics…fodder for the screaming right wing outrage machine.

If you frame the Lawn Boy excerpt as a man talking about touching a 4th grader sexually, sure, it sounds horrific.  These reactionary loons are all screaming PEDOPHILIA in all caps!

If you read the book and know that it is a sensitive story about a young man trying to find the American Dream and reflecting on how a soulless jerk in his community who treats him like dirt happens to be someone who he once sexually experimented with when *they both were in 4th grade*, it’s an entirely different context.  You hear the language as bravado masking hurt.  There was no pedophilia involved and clearly it is not *promotion* of anything…in context, they guy is struggling with his place in the world. It’s a mature book appropriate for some teenagers.

But if you read a few sentences from a 300 page book a loud and completely mischaracterize their context, you can get in the news and score political points.  A huge win for Republicans and a huge loss for our community, which seems no linger to be led by educated, well read people who are capable of thinking rationally.  (Actually, I take that back.  In terms of most of the School Board, they are leading with thought and care.  It’s just that the screeching voices of people who are ricocheting from one reactionary stance to another are louder.)[/quote]

For the record, I’m not the same person as the school librarian above.  I have read Lawn Biy but not Gender Queer.  But I do trust school librarians’ professionalism and effort.  I know there is a process for review of books and other supplementary materials at the school level.  A true concerned parent could simply have contacted the school and initiated a review.  But that wasn’t the point of this.  The point was to get people screaming that the School Board buys gay porn instead of building new schools or whatever.  It’s preposterous but look what’s happening right here.  People buy it hook, line, and sinker.[/quote]

It’s not just gay porn. It underage gay porn. Not sure if you truly enjoy looking at 4th grade d but most people would agree that sort material does not belong in a school library.

I’m happy the mom brought it up on Thursday. It should anger decent people. [/quote]

It should, but the speaker was addressing the FCPS School Board.  [/quote]

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