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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The story’s gone bigger, and wow are these boys feeling proud of themselves!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/11/12/school-book-challenges-conservative/

“ Others feel triumphant. Daniel Latham, a father who spoke at the Monday meeting in Spotsylvania, said he and a group of like-minded parents were inspired to review the school system’s library after reading news stories about parents challenging texts elsewhere in the country.

Latham went to the meeting to denounce mask-wearing mandates and teacher equity trainings as well as urge the removal of explicit materials. I  believe that should be the parent’s choice, to expose their children to graphic sexual content,” the 40-year-old said. “If it’s in the [school] library, I lose that choice.”

Translation: I have no actual knowledge of what my kid is leaning in their school,  nor any desire to find out, but I came today because I saw these things on Fox. I like freedom to spread my disease and I don’t like that kids are wearing masks because it makes me uncomfortable.  Plus, I can’t read good, so I don’t want anyone to read good, in case they think they’re better than me, and I’m a white male so we can’t have that.”

So embarrassing. If he really does have a kid in that school I’m embarrassed for them. [/quote]

I also find this line from the article troubling. It quotes a woman (presumably a parent at a local school) who spoke before the Spotsylvania school board:

[quote]Searching the district’s online library catalogue, she added, she found 172 hits for books including the word “gay,” 84 hits for books with the word “lesbian” and just 19 hits for books with the word “Jesus” — “but half of them are about Muslims,” she said.[/quote]

Why was she searching for the words "gay" and "lesbian"? She may be personally biased toward LGBTQ people, but it's not her business if other people's kids get to access books about those identities. (Having friends and relatives who are gay or who have gay kids, I am grateful that there are books about other sexual identities in public schools.) And what was the point of searching for the word "Jesus"? Public schools are secular--what is her concern about the number of books that deal with "Jesus"?  Finally, why did she note that half the books with the word "Jesus" also referred to "Muslims," as if that was a problem?  GTFOH with your religious biases and bs. 
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Seriously. If she has access to the school library, then they all do. They can go through that catalog item by item and list every single book they don’t want their kids reading because it’s too much for their delicate sensitivities and hand it over to the librarian. What we are seeing here is sheer laziness from people who couldn’t be bothered with their kids schools or their education until the right wing media needed them riled up and will go back to not caring as soon as they are required to actually do something that might take them away from Facebook or their tv.[/quote]

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