Anonymous
Post 09/24/2021 13:34     Subject: Why are book banners showing up at FCPS SB meetings
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Do you have a problem with Maya Angelou and JD Salinger, too?


Years ago a mom fought the board on Beloved.

She ended up going to the state and it’s now required to tell parents the syllabus and they sign off on it. Also offer an alternate text.

Maya Angelou didn't write Beloved.
Anonymous
Post 09/24/2021 13:31     Subject: Why are book banners showing up at FCPS SB meetings
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:“’He talked about old times at the church, but never mentioned our penises or the fact that he never said ten words to me after our little foray in the bushes. Not a single reference to holding or tugging or sucking d**ks. All I could think about while he was chatting me up was his little salamander between my fourth-grade fingers, rapidly engorging with blood,’”


Disgusting. Definitely don’t want this in high school.


4th grader??? I would have been okay if the book was about adults but not under-aged kids. What message are we sending here? What are we encouraging? HS kids should go out and look for elementary school kids to bang? FCPS and many of these school districts are becoming lawless.
Anonymous
Post 09/24/2021 12:16     Subject: Why are book banners showing up at FCPS SB meetings
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:“’He talked about old times at the church, but never mentioned our penises or the fact that he never said ten words to me after our little foray in the bushes. Not a single reference to holding or tugging or sucking d**ks. All I could think about while he was chatting me up was his little salamander between my fourth-grade fingers, rapidly engorging with blood,’”


Disgusting. Definitely don’t want this in high school.



Frisch seems to think it's poetry.

Right up there with the works of Edgar Allan Poe and Maya Angelou.

You aren't supporting lgbtqia+ students, staff and faculty if you dare suggest otherwise.
Anonymous
Post 09/24/2021 12:07     Subject: Why are book banners showing up at FCPS SB meetings
Anonymous wrote:Marching orders from the national right wing efforts to undermine state and local government.


+1

Exactly.

Astroturfing 101.
Anonymous
Post 09/24/2021 12:04     Subject: Why are book banners showing up at FCPS SB meetings
Anonymous wrote:“’He talked about old times at the church, but never mentioned our penises or the fact that he never said ten words to me after our little foray in the bushes. Not a single reference to holding or tugging or sucking d**ks. All I could think about while he was chatting me up was his little salamander between my fourth-grade fingers, rapidly engorging with blood,’”


Disgusting. Definitely don’t want this in high school.
Anonymous
Post 09/24/2021 11:35     Subject: Why are book banners showing up at FCPS SB meetings
“’He talked about old times at the church, but never mentioned our penises or the fact that he never said ten words to me after our little foray in the bushes. Not a single reference to holding or tugging or sucking d**ks. All I could think about while he was chatting me up was his little salamander between my fourth-grade fingers, rapidly engorging with blood,’”
Anonymous
Post 09/24/2021 11:33     Subject: Why are book banners showing up at FCPS SB meetings
What if I told you I touched another guy’s d**k? What if I told you I sucked it? I was 10 years old, but it’s true. I put Doug Goebbel’s d**k in my mouth. I was in fourth grade. It was no big deal, he sucked mine too. And you know what? It wasn’t terrible.”
Anonymous
Post 09/24/2021 08:48     Subject: Re:Why are book banners showing up at FCPS SB meetings
Anonymous wrote:My daughter’s class read Speak in 9th grade. We had so many rich conversations during that period. Maybe these parents can talk to their kids about this material instead of inciting anger and fear.


If you wish to have a discussion with your 12 year old daughter about the graphic language in the book being discussed, then get the book yourself. It should not be available to seventh graders--and it is. And, FWIW, it would be deeply offensive to many and troubling to others.
Anonymous
Post 09/23/2021 23:18     Subject: Why are book banners showing up at FCPS SB meetings
Do we really have to have two separate threads about this exact same thing?

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1003166.page
Anonymous
Post 09/23/2021 21:21     Subject: Re:Why are book banners showing up at FCPS SB meetings
My daughter’s class read Speak in 9th grade. We had so many rich conversations during that period. Maybe these parents can talk to their kids about this material instead of inciting anger and fear.
Anonymous
Post 09/23/2021 21:18     Subject: Why are book banners showing up at FCPS SB meetings
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I trust our librarians and do not support book banning.


So, you support porn in our schools?


I very much doubt anything in the FCPS library rises to the level of porn, that is, materiel whose sole purpose is sexual arousal, rather than books with some explicit content. If your kid really wants to get their hands on some porn, there are much easier and likely more enticing options than pages 74-79 of a book in the fiction section of the school library.


+1. I will bet that woman’s kid is well versed in Internet porn. And imagine how mortified her kid is after her behavior. Maybe she will channel Footloose and scream about teen dancing next.
Anonymous
Post 09/23/2021 21:13     Subject: Why are book banners showing up at FCPS SB meetings
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I trust our librarians and do not support book banning.


So, you support porn in our schools?


Unless the book is really well illustrated it isn’t porn


+1.

I really, really wish sometime would name whatever book it is I'm supposed to be horrified by, instead of just hollering "porn! porn!"


If it’s an obscure books, this will be great for sales. I wonder if it actually has to get banned for the indy book stores to include it in their banned book sections
Anonymous
Post 09/23/2021 21:10     Subject: Why are book banners showing up at FCPS SB meetings
Parents have the right to opt out of any assigned book. That’s why these book banners have no valid point.
Anonymous
Post 09/23/2021 21:09     Subject: Why are book banners showing up at FCPS SB meetings
Anonymous wrote:Did thre right wing media send out the bat signal to ban books now? Every parent has the right to opt out of books for their kods but the nuts at tonight’s school board meeting want to pray and ban books. The latest idiot wouldn’t stop talking when her time was up and made the Board have to recess. No rules for these sheep. Where did these backwards folks come from?


Pro-forced injectors come too, right?

Let's have a little variety.
Anonymous
Post 09/23/2021 21:07     Subject: Why are book banners showing up at FCPS SB meetings
Anonymous wrote:Do you have a problem with Maya Angelou and JD Salinger, too?


Years ago a mom fought the board on Beloved.

She ended up going to the state and it’s now required to tell parents the syllabus and they sign off on it. Also offer an alternate text.