Florida classroom bookshelves left empty as education reform law goes into effect

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"And this from Alabama" S2 #220

a) !
b) There's no shaming the shameless.
Any ideology that's so intrinsically pernicious its advocates need censorship to advance it is automatically alarming.

Generally a superior welcomes competition, confident that such competition will demonstrate, confirm superiority.
Those that advocate / practice suppression confess their own inferiority.

If prevailing is their objective, and they dare not risk legitimate competition to achieve that objective,
they forfeit claim to legitimacy.

And those that knowingly inflict such inferior agenda on children not merely disgrace themselves.
They also handicap children, displacing education with indoctrination.

In the 3rd millennium information culture of smart-phone and Internet, such education suppression
may never have been a more severe, more detrimental impairment.

Censors champion ignorance, and favor fear over enlightenment. Happy 9/11 .

 

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On that Alabama law - the article doesn't say whether someone with a child's membership needs a separate parental approval for every "adult" book they want to sign out or can they get a blanket approval for all books whenever they want?

That said, many (most?) libraries have an open floor plan so kids can wander around, find anything they want, and find a seat somewhere and read whatever they want without checking the book out.

And the Brooklyn library makes everything available to US teenagers

https://www.reddit.com/r/audiobooks/comments/uakz0b/brooklyn_library_card_available_to_all_us

 

[Shiftless2]

And in Texas



BREAKING

Dan Patrick is DEMANDING Texas schools pull 2,193 books, including Elie Wiesel's Holocaust memoir Night, and the graphic novel adaptation of Anne Frank's diary.

The 2,193-title list was compiled by Recover America, a conservative activist group, whose legislative liaison Bonnie Wallace stood beside the lieutenant governor at the Texas Capitol on August 19. Night, Wiesel's account of surviving Nazi concentration camps, is objected to because it "contains violence," "controversial religious commentary," and "references to hate."

Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation is on the list. So is All the Light We Cannot See.

So are The Picture of Dorian Gray, Slaughterhouse-Five, Native Son, Hatchet, Flowers for Algernon, and books by Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Margaret Atwood, John Green and Rick Riordan.

Patrick said he will pass a law docking a school district an entire letter grade in the state's A-F accountability ratings if one book from that list is found on one shelf anywhere in the district.

Texas uses those ratings to seize control of districts and push out elected school boards. At least six have already been taken over.

"We're coming for the books," Patrick said. "We ask that you do it on your own and remove these books."

The Texas Freedom to Read Project pointed out afterward that SB 13, the 2025 library law Patrick keeps invoking, does not actually require districts to remove any book on that list. Districts still choose their own collections.

Patrick says the books are "so filthy, so dirty, so vulgar, so pornographic" that he refused to open them in front of the women in the room.

SOURCE with comments

If they were serious about removing books with sex and violence the Bible would be at the top of their list.

 

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"Patrick says the books are "so filthy, so dirty, so vulgar, so pornographic" that he refused to open them in front of the women in the room." S2 #223

Translation:
He hasn't read them.