Georgia’s second-largest school district says that it has removed two books from 20 school libraries, saying the books had “highly inappropriate, sexually explicit content.”
The announcement, sent in an electronic message to parents in some Cobb County schools on Monday, comes days after the Republican-majority school board voted 4-3 along party lines to fire a teacher for reading a book about gender identity to fifth-grade students.
Although not new, book removals have surged since 2020, part of a backlash to what kids read and discuss in public schools. Conservatives want to stop children from reading books with themes on sexuality, gender, race and religion that they find objectionable. PEN America, a group promoting freedom of expression, counted 4,000 instances of books banned nationwide from July 2021 to December 2022.
Chill out the hell out and stop being so condescending. We aren’t bringing that shit over from Reddit. And no, I didn’t think you were someone else.
Oh man, I finally got around to clicking your username and you mod a bunch of writing subs and have a “tip jar” on your account…
No wonder you took this so personally.
It’s not a big deal, you learned something, it’s a good thing. Don’t let your ego get in the way at improving in something you clearly care a lot about. Who cares if ~20 people saw you didn’t know what cognitive dissonance was?
I didn’t take it personally. It was just really aggressive and rude hence why I pointed it out as such. Saying that I have something in common with book banners was just not needed.