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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]If what Scholastic is saying is true that their only choices were between removing those books entirely or make them an opt-in collection,[/b] I'm not sure what else they could have done and continued to serve a nationwide market. Maybe the answer is to move to an independent, local supplier, but I don't know how feasible or affordable that is for every school (or school district). It's not fair to condemn a nationwide book distributor that has to account for the laws in other states if they want to continue operating at a nationwide level. The blame lies with the elected officials that are passing these book bans, not the teachers, librarians, or book distributors that are forced to respond to the bans.[/quote]

They have manufactured this tension. Librarians and book fair sponsors have always had the option of not putting out any books that they are uncomfortable with. None of the many wonderful local/regional independent book fairs have resorted to this nonsense, and I urge anyone who coordinates their school’s PTA to use them. I can vouch for Bedford Falls Book Fairs and Bookworm Plantation (I have never used Scholastic because of the trinkets and the amount of titles that are just media tie-ins).[/quote]

Um, I don’t know anything about them, but the very LAST option that I would pick for a children’s book fair — especially when I’m concerned about diversity issues — is one that thought that calling themselves “PLANTATION “ would be a wonderful way to attract patrons. [/quote]

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