Anonymous
11/06/2023 22:14
Subject: Seriously with the book banning ?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Oh America! I mean it is Florida, but still.
https://www.rawstory.com/banned-books-in-florida/
member of the Flagler County, Florida school board has filed a criminal complaint over four copies of an LGBTQ book recommended for 14 to 18 year olds, claiming it violates the state's obscenity laws.
"My concern is for the children of Flagler County," Jill Woolbright claims, according to the Palm Coast Observer. "This book needs to be investigated as a crime in our media center. This is pretty heavy stuff, violating our own policies.
Book banning. I don’t think you really understand the meaning of the phrase. It is impossible for a school to ban a book. Sure, it can exclude a book from its library and not make it a part of the curriculum on the grounds that a significant portion of parents believe that reading “great literature” containing descriptions of fisting and the like is not necessary to become educated. But these books are still available in the marketplace. In fact, parents are free to expose their own children to pornographic material to whatever extent they choose. But schools should not make the consumption of these materials compulsory and are not obligated to make them freely available. This is really not a complicated issue.
They know all of this. There are certain people who have kept this thread alive for years because they are so desperate for the state to provide sexual material to other people’s children. Of course they likely don’t even have children.
No, it is about free speech and exchange of ideas. Things the right was supposed to be so adamant about when wanting a nativity scene on public space.
No. It’s about sexual content. Why not put hustler in the school library if you are a free speech absolutist?
And please spare us the nonsense that book banning is only coming from one side.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/11/03/to-kill-a-mockingbird-book-ban-removal-washington/
That’s not banning.
Anonymous
11/06/2023 21:26
Subject: Seriously with the book banning ?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Awfully quiet in here.
+1
Liberals can't bear being called out as hypocrites. They will not respond to the banning of "To Kill A Mockingbird." They'll just ignore it, while continuing to insist that graphically sexual books should be available in public school libraries. Liberal = hypocrite.
Completely agree. But There are also a lot of bad faith trolls who are desperate for the state to provide sexual material to other people’s children so I’m sure they will return soon.
Anonymous
11/06/2023 20:24
Subject: Seriously with the book banning ?
Anonymous wrote:Awfully quiet in here.
+1
Liberals can't bear being called out as hypocrites. They will not respond to the banning of "To Kill A Mockingbird." They'll just ignore it, while continuing to insist that graphically sexual books should be available in public school libraries. Liberal = hypocrite.
Anonymous
11/06/2023 20:01
Subject: Seriously with the book banning ?
Awfully quiet in here.
Anonymous
11/05/2023 05:25
Subject: Re:Seriously with the book banning ?
Book banning you say?
A group of progressive teachers fought to “prohibit” Harper Lee’s novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” from being assigned in classroom curriculum amid left-wing criticism of parents protesting sexually explicit books in school.
The four teachers, according to The Post, “launched a years-long quest to prohibit any teacher in the largely liberal Mukilteo School District from assigning ‘Mockingbird.’ And it started with a formal book challenge in late 2021 — the first in 20 years, and the first ever to come from teachers.”
“To Kill A Mockingbird centers on whiteness,” the teachers wrote in their formal challenge to the book being required in the school curriculum, also claiming that “it presents a barrier to understanding and celebrating an authentic Black point of view in Civil Rights era literature and should be removed.”
A committee eventually voted in favor of removing the book from the ninth-grade required list for the school district, while still keeping it on the approved novels list, a decision eventually supported by the school board.
The outcome was not entirely to the satisfaction of the teachers who pushed to oust the book completely.
“Each said it’s a good thing all freshmen no longer have to read the book,” The Post wrote. “Each said they think students will be harmed because the book remains as a teaching option.”
A group of progressive teachers fought to “prohibit” Harper Lee’s novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” from being assigned in classroom curriculum amid left-wing criticism of parents protesting sexually explicit books in school.
The four teachers, according to The Post, “launched a years-long quest to prohibit any teacher in the largely liberal Mukilteo School District from assigning ‘Mockingbird.’ And it started with a formal book challenge in late 2021 — the first in 20 years, and the first ever to come from teachers.”
“To Kill A Mockingbird centers on whiteness,” the teachers wrote in their formal challenge to the book being required in the school curriculum, also claiming that “it presents a barrier to understanding and celebrating an authentic Black point of view in Civil Rights era literature and should be removed.”
A committee eventually voted in favor of removing the book from the ninth-grade required list for the school district, while still keeping it on the approved novels list, a decision eventually supported by the school board.
The outcome was not entirely to the satisfaction of the teachers who pushed to oust the book completely.
“Each said it’s a good thing all freshmen no longer have to read the book,” The Post wrote. “Each said they think students will be harmed because the book remains as a teaching option.”
Anonymous
11/04/2023 18:51
Subject: Seriously with the book banning ?
Anonymous wrote:Librarians carefully curate collections. It’s what they’re hired to do.
There’s no hustler in schools and you know that but can’t stop Catastrophizing to promote your Christian evangelical agenda.
We see you.
Im an atheist, I’m not what Christian agenda you are referring to.
Sounds to me like you do support banning certain materials in schools.
Anonymous
11/04/2023 18:47
Subject: Seriously with the book banning ?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Oh America! I mean it is Florida, but still.
https://www.rawstory.com/banned-books-in-florida/
member of the Flagler County, Florida school board has filed a criminal complaint over four copies of an LGBTQ book recommended for 14 to 18 year olds, claiming it violates the state's obscenity laws.
"My concern is for the children of Flagler County," Jill Woolbright claims, according to the Palm Coast Observer. "This book needs to be investigated as a crime in our media center. This is pretty heavy stuff, violating our own policies.
Book banning. I don’t think you really understand the meaning of the phrase. It is impossible for a school to ban a book. Sure, it can exclude a book from its library and not make it a part of the curriculum on the grounds that a significant portion of parents believe that reading “great literature” containing descriptions of fisting and the like is not necessary to become educated. But these books are still available in the marketplace. In fact, parents are free to expose their own children to pornographic material to whatever extent they choose. But schools should not make the consumption of these materials compulsory and are not obligated to make them freely available. This is really not a complicated issue.
They know all of this. There are certain people who have kept this thread alive for years because they are so desperate for the state to provide sexual material to other people’s children. Of course they likely don’t even have children.
No, it is about free speech and exchange of ideas. Things the right was supposed to be so adamant about when wanting a nativity scene on public space.
No. It’s about sexual content. Why not put hustler in the school library if you are a free speech absolutist?
And please spare us the nonsense that book banning is only coming from one side.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/11/03/to-kill-a-mockingbird-book-ban-removal-washington/
And you support banning the Bible in school libraries, correct? If not you are a hypocrite.
Of course. As an atheist I believe that no religion should be promoted to children in public schools.
I notice that you didn’t respond to my question. Why not provide hustler to your kids in school, you support that right? Or perhaps you’re the hypocrite.
Anonymous
11/04/2023 15:36
Subject: Seriously with the book banning ?
+1
Anonymous
11/04/2023 15:36
Subject: Seriously with the book banning ?
Anonymous wrote:Librarians carefully curate collections. It’s what they’re hired to do.
There’s no hustler in schools and you know that but can’t stop Catastrophizing to promote your Christian evangelical agenda.
We see you.
Anonymous
11/04/2023 15:33
Subject: Seriously with the book banning ?
Librarians carefully curate collections. It’s what they’re hired to do.
There’s no hustler in schools and you know that but can’t stop Catastrophizing to promote your Christian evangelical agenda.
We see you.
There’s no hustler in schools and you know that but can’t stop Catastrophizing to promote your Christian evangelical agenda.
We see you.
Anonymous
11/04/2023 12:49
Subject: Seriously with the book banning ?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Oh America! I mean it is Florida, but still.
https://www.rawstory.com/banned-books-in-florida/
member of the Flagler County, Florida school board has filed a criminal complaint over four copies of an LGBTQ book recommended for 14 to 18 year olds, claiming it violates the state's obscenity laws.
"My concern is for the children of Flagler County," Jill Woolbright claims, according to the Palm Coast Observer. "This book needs to be investigated as a crime in our media center. This is pretty heavy stuff, violating our own policies.
Book banning. I don’t think you really understand the meaning of the phrase. It is impossible for a school to ban a book. Sure, it can exclude a book from its library and not make it a part of the curriculum on the grounds that a significant portion of parents believe that reading “great literature” containing descriptions of fisting and the like is not necessary to become educated. But these books are still available in the marketplace. In fact, parents are free to expose their own children to pornographic material to whatever extent they choose. But schools should not make the consumption of these materials compulsory and are not obligated to make them freely available. This is really not a complicated issue.
They know all of this. There are certain people who have kept this thread alive for years because they are so desperate for the state to provide sexual material to other people’s children. Of course they likely don’t even have children.
No, it is about free speech and exchange of ideas. Things the right was supposed to be so adamant about when wanting a nativity scene on public space.
No. It’s about sexual content. Why not put hustler in the school library if you are a free speech absolutist?
And please spare us the nonsense that book banning is only coming from one side.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/11/03/to-kill-a-mockingbird-book-ban-removal-washington/
And you support banning the Bible in school libraries, correct? If not you are a hypocrite.
Anonymous
Anonymous
11/03/2023 16:19
Subject: Seriously with the book banning ?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Oh America! I mean it is Florida, but still.
https://www.rawstory.com/banned-books-in-florida/
member of the Flagler County, Florida school board has filed a criminal complaint over four copies of an LGBTQ book recommended for 14 to 18 year olds, claiming it violates the state's obscenity laws.
"My concern is for the children of Flagler County," Jill Woolbright claims, according to the Palm Coast Observer. "This book needs to be investigated as a crime in our media center. This is pretty heavy stuff, violating our own policies.
Book banning. I don’t think you really understand the meaning of the phrase. It is impossible for a school to ban a book. Sure, it can exclude a book from its library and not make it a part of the curriculum on the grounds that a significant portion of parents believe that reading “great literature” containing descriptions of fisting and the like is not necessary to become educated. But these books are still available in the marketplace. In fact, parents are free to expose their own children to pornographic material to whatever extent they choose. But schools should not make the consumption of these materials compulsory and are not obligated to make them freely available. This is really not a complicated issue.
They know all of this. There are certain people who have kept this thread alive for years because they are so desperate for the state to provide sexual material to other people’s children. Of course they likely don’t even have children.
No, it is about free speech and exchange of ideas. Things the right was supposed to be so adamant about when wanting a nativity scene on public space.
No. It’s about sexual content. Why not put hustler in the school library if you are a free speech absolutist?
And please spare us the nonsense that book banning is only coming from one side.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/11/03/to-kill-a-mockingbird-book-ban-removal-washington/
Anonymous
11/03/2023 08:43
Subject: Re:Seriously with the book banning ?
ha that's great!
I'm a school librarian with lots of thoughts on this.
I'm a school librarian with lots of thoughts on this.