Restricting books isn’t new, but the bans - some statewide and others only affecting specific school districts - are increasingly part of a larger, nationwide clash over classroom discussions of race and gender identity that has seen conservative activists push money and candidates for school board positions.
“The school is to educate kids to give them the tools that they need to eventually succeed in life. “The school is not a playground for politicians,” founder and president Elana Fishbein said. The group No Left Turn in Education, which supports some bans, says it opposes schools that impose the “orthodoxy of the left,” as well as books containing sexually explicit imagery. Similar bans have been instituted in a push that’s seen hundreds of titles nixed in nearly 3,000 schools across 26 states, according to the nonprofit free speech group PEN America. Detractors, meanwhile, say the policy chills discussion around institutional racism and deprives LGBTQ children resources to better understand themselves.
Proponents say they are protecting children from sexualized material, political indoctrination and concepts designed to impart guilt on white students.
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She says she quit in protest, and her teaching license is now in jeopardy, after she provided the code to students. “The QR code has become - for lack of a better phrasing - it’s become a symbol of resistance locally in my state,” former Norman High School English teacher Summer Boismier said in an interview. Now colleagues, students and community members are making yard signs, and kids are wearing shirts to school advertising the program with a barcode that connects to the BPL website on phones. One Oklahoma high school teacher resigned after suffering backlash for introducing students to the program.
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