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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If this keeps books with images of sex acts or instructions on how to get on Grindr out of our schools, I’m perfectly fine with it.  [/quote]

Frankly, if my HS age son is reading lewd books rather than perusing the internet, I would call that a win. Honestly in today’s society kids have basically open access to the internet. Or peer shared material. [b]Just be honest - conservative parents want to control the information their kids have access to/learn.[/b][/quote]
Are you saying that you don’t want to control what your kids have access to?

If I filled your kids’ school library with books like Mein Kampf, the Turner Diaries, Unintended Consequences, and biblical tracts, would you be all right with that?[/quote]

DP I'd have no problem with a high school class that read these books analytically to teach kids how to spot misinformation, propaganda, anti-semitism, etc. Critical reading skills are very important, as are media interpretation skills. I had a history class in college where we read excerpts of Mein Kampf. You can't understand something by ignoring it.

And seeing how I grew up watching all sorts of risque movies in the 1980s, I don't know what the big deal is about high schoolers reading Gender Queer, which isn't anywhere near as graphic as some of those 80s and 90s films.

I also used to read lots of romance novels as a teen and plenty of those are extremely steamy. And what about the Judy Blume books??
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+1.

Every single post trotting out Gender Queer or similar books ignores when it's pointed out that these books weren't in elementary schools. They are in some highschools and I think that's fine. Yes, they have pictures - because graphic novels are a popular genre now - but so what?  Are pictures that different from say, words, in effect? Are pictures WORSE than words? I think men might say yes, but as a woman, I say no. [/quote]

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