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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]No, this was a performative tantrum. Genuine and appropriate concern starts by talking with the school librarian and school admin. Who acknowledge your concerns and point you to the book review committee. Then you file a challenge with the committee and seeing what they say. It does not involve cherry-picking a page out of two books out of thousands and going straight for shock value at a SB meeting. You do that to make a scene and make headlines. I don’t care that she objected. I care that she immediately escalated to the SB in the most dramatic way possible. And in the end, thenSB did exactly what the librarian would have done— referred it to the committee. Same result. More headlines.

And because the material is graphic, I don’t appreciate it being broadcast with no warning into every household with ES aged kids who might be present watching the livestream.

All of us get ticked off at FCPs policies and decisions. And most of us escalate concerns appropriately. Otherwise, you’d have 100,000 parents pitching temper tantrums at the SB level for things that can be dealt with at the school level. This SB cannot walk and chew gum at the same time. And the time it takes for them to deal with this crap is time they aren’t dealing with improving quarantine and isolation, livestreams to kids with COVID, a testing protocol, and test to stay.[/quote]

"Performative?"  maybe.  But, do you listen to our SB members?  We frequently get performances from them.

Yes, her testimony was terribly offensive.  That was the point.  What better way to get the attention.  The process you describe takes weeks--probably months.

Believe me, had she gone through the "process" the books would still be there.  Most parents were unaware and they would have continued to be unaware.[/quote]

The process would have taken over a year. Call it what you will, but it moved the Board to act, which is amazing. Kudos to her for ignoring the stupidly complicated procedure. [/quote]

Exactly. The procedure needs to be revamped anyway. [/quote]

Do you have any experience with the procedure?  How, specifically, should it be revamped?  Where do you get the “it takes a year” assertion?  IME, it’s nice to have a mix of students, parents, admin and educators and takes about a month, maybe two depending on the length and complexity of the book in question.  It take sometime to read it, plus the various reviews. It seems to be. Very thoughtful process it’s multiple stakeholder views.

Do you think everyone should bring their book directly to the SB meeting?  Or??  Why, specifically, would you do differently?[/quote]

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