If one Florida public school library book is "challenged" for CRT...

[Timeflyer]

If one Florida public school library book is "challenged" and the challenger appeals the decision, it costs the school district thousands of dollars.

On Feb. 7, the Sarasota County School Board voted to require parental consent for some students to check out an anti-racism book. The challenged book, "Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You" by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi, discusses racism and systemic racism in the U.S. It's a YA adaptation of an adult book by Kendi.

In Sarasota a mom (for liberty?) challenged Stamped, which was available to any 6th through 12th grader, but wasn't used as instructional material. She wanted it removed from all district PUBLIC school libraries because CRT, woke, indoctrination, controversial, violates state standards established by the anointed FL legislators, blah, blah, vulnerable children.

There is a long-established procedure in place if a parent objects to a book or other school library material--her child's record is flagged and that particular child cannot check out that particular item. But--nope, not good enough--she appealed, so the entire middle school got involved for a special hearing on this book. The school didn't agree to remove the book from her child's school library. So she appealed again, and a district wide meeting was held. The whole process involved legal fees. If the board lawyer takes six hours to read and review a book, research statutes and prepare a opinion, etc., cha-ching$$$. Not to mention the education professionals and administrators and staff involved in the process.

At a public hearing on the challenge before the Sarasota School Board, the woman presented her case. And more than 20 citizens spoke in public comments objecting to her attempted book ban. In the end the board voted to make parents of children grades 6-8 opt in if their child tries to check the book out, but it can stay available without parental permission for check out to grades 9-12.

One book challenged. Thousands of dollars, (which could purchase how many books?) and staff hours spent, because this is DeSadist's Florida. Our tax dollars, weaponized to starve and destroy PUBLIC education, so privatization of schools can suck up the $.

https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/education/2023/02/07/sarasota-school-board-requires-parent-permission-for-anti-racism-book/69880152007/

[Lovie777]

1. Will DeSatan and his merry assholes take away children's home computers and cellphones.....

Because books can be ordered and read on line. Young people will not be denied except for the middle class and poor RWers.

People I talk with who lives in Florida will still teach their children and will allow them to read books that have been banned and/or CRT/woke bullshit.

Many young people looking for colleges and universities will not look to Florida or many of the Southern states.

[Freethinker65]

2. Can the losing side be required to pay the fees incurred by the district?

Garnishing of wages? Loss of some State tax write offs and exemptions? With the money returned to the district.
How about community service hours?

[Scrivener7]

4. My first reaction was, "great idea" but the problem is they would turn around and

enact things that normal people would have to protest and then clobber us with those fees.

If it could be done only with respect to the books and not, say, with respect to hearings protesting a teacher who asks students to debate on the benefits of slavery, it would be a good idea.

[raging moderate]

3. I wonder if we could mount our own protest.

Critical race theory, eh? What about books and movies that make it look like the white people heroically saved the nasty brutish subhumans of other races from themselves and gently educated and provided for them? (Gone with the Wind comes to mnd here).

[Maraya1969]

5. They should do a study to see if the "opt in" kids got better grades than the "opt out" kids did

Then show the results to the idiot parents.

[slightlv]

6. The Right has been trying to kill public education

for decades. Working on it slow and steady, especially behind the scenes, in actually dumbing down textbooks. They see this as their penultimate moment. Since *rump was elected, they think everything is on their side. Hopefully we'll be able to prove them wrong. They want to privatize everything in the country. Face it, they want all the money and they're not going to be happy until they've hoed the rows to achieve it. Our children being on the short end of the globalization knowledge base is only the cherry on top -- decades of low-wage labor slaves, who don't know enough to ask "how can it be better."