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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The banned book stuff is what gets me. I'm all for having books in schools but when I go to the middle or high school the very first display I see is "Books people don't want you to read" with all of the gender stuff. Why do my kids need to walk past all of that to get a copy of Harry Potter? [/quote]

I've never met a kid who didn't walk past what they weren't interested in to get to what they wanted. Doesn't matter if the display is science books, Harry Potter or banned books.

You do realize that there are a fair number of parents out there who want to van Harry Potter because they are "satanic"? [/quote]

[b]But why is gender the most important topic to the librarians[/b]? Sure the kids can walk past it, but they can't completely ignore it because it is right in their face. "Read banned books!" They can have a section for gender the same as everything else but they don't need to push it non-stop. The funny thing is that the only books on the topic that are really banned are the ones discouraging medication and surgery for kids.
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It's not. But banned books are. I  remember all the banned book displays in my library growing up in the 70s and 80s. There is nothing new here.[/quote]

Oh, right, I forgot that “Lawn Boy” and “Gender Queer” are of exactly the same intellectual and cultural heft as “The Bluest Eye.”  [/quote]

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