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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]

Exactly this.  And the people who want all these procedural hoops to be followed just want the books to remain available indefinitely in school libraries AND have no concern when the School Board itself rides roughshod over normal procedure (like Karl Frisch taking money that was expressly set aside for a new elementary school in Fairfax/Oakton and using it for an entirely different purpose elsewhere in his district).  The level of hypocrisy is over-the-top.  [/quote]

So you really think any parent should be able to come screeching yo the school hoard about any book and it should be immediately pulled from every library shelf in the county?  You really think this is an appropriate use of School Board time … that they should on the spot make decisions about library purchases based on out of context excerpts read aloud for an audience???? WTH!  It’s hard enough for the SB to get *anythjng* done.  Individual schools have 20,000+ books.  People should be lining up to read aloud from them at SB meetings?

This is madness.  Utter madness.[/quote]

I’m a school librarian who had had a book challenged under this process. It most certainly did not take a year. And I think in the end, all parties involved felt heard. The committee that is formed when this happens is made up of parents/teachers/librarians/Gatehouse people. The process is in place for a reason and is reviewed on a regular basis.[/quote]

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