re: Judge rules school district must return books with graphic sex themes to school libraries

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I also think having a sensitive book section is maybe the right idea. idk what that entails exactly but having these books where you can only check them out with a parents permission feels like a very valid way to go (not what’s being argued here)

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Parents could either not allow their children to check out sensitive books or be alerted when the student checks out the book. In making her determination, the judge focused on emails between board members regarding their votes on "You Should See Me in a Crown" (namely some members advocating they had to represent their conservative constituents) and some parents comments dealing with lesbian themes in some of the feedback. Nevertheless, this wasn't applied to all of the books and the motivation would seem to be a question of fact for trial.

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Technology is about to frick a lot of people in the arse. Badly.

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And then a liberal judge will order visuals of said arse fricking to be available in elementary school libraries.

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This will end up with judges being able to approve (ie., create through amicus submissions by the LGB lobby) book lists that local school districts are to buy or make available to students. That would be compelled speech through the use of taxpayer funds for only approved content, would it not?

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Judges are not suppose to invade book choice for the educational purpose, i.e. more legalistically,

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f the speech at issue bears the imprimatur of the school and involves pedagogical interests, then it is school-sponsored speech, and the school may impose restrictions on it so long as those restrictions are reasonably related to legitimate pedagogical concerns. The imprimatur concept covers speech that is so closely connected to the school that it appears the school is somehow sponsoring the speech

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Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeyer

The judge is stating here that access to the books were removed, and that the removal of access violates the students first amendment rights to receive information and authors (more specifically Jodi Picoult of the Author's Guild) right to disseminate speech. Order

WTF is wrong with liberals

Focused on that and some emails where the Director said LGBTQ doesn’t belong in any school and the constituents won’t be happy if they return any of these books.

Why can’t we just arrest every adult that allows a child to have access to these books for some sort of sexual crime against minors? I’m sure there is something to get them on.

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...what the books where and how they got there

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(1) The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas;
(2) Beloved by Toni Morrison;
(3) The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison;
(4) The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini;
(5) You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson;
(6) #Pride: Championing LGBTQ Rights by Rebecca Felix;
(7) George (now published and referred to as Melissa) by Alex Gino;
(8) It’s Your World—If You Don’t Like It, Change It by Mikki Halpin;
(9) The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky;
(10) Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher;
(11) Looking for Alaska by John Green,
(12) Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult;
(13) Crank by Ellen Hopkins;
(14) Glass by Ellen Hopkins;
(15) Fallout by Ellen Hopkins;
(16) Identical by Ellen Hopkins;
(17) Burned by Ellen Hopkins;
(18) Smoke by Ellen Hopkins; and
(19) Redwood and Ponytail by K.A. Holt. Order

I don't know how they got there, but a parent had saw where his 11-year-old daughter had checked out a 14+ recommended book from the library that contained profanity and explicit sexual content. The 14+ book was in a middle school library. That started a review process that flagged a number of books that then went through a board, parent, and public meeting process. They used Goodbooks to compare to the library catalog.

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Conservatives should start flooding elementary school libraries with books about the joy of shooting guns

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The interesting point of this is that Florida removed books from public schools by order of the governor and all challenges were lost

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. Nevertheless, this wasn't applied to all of the books and the motivation would seem to be a question of fact for trial.

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There is no ability to have a trial when a school board votes to either allow or not allow books in a library within the school

It is not the courts function to determine what books are required to be in a library