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Jilly_in_VA

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Sat Aug 12, 2023, 11:46 AM Aug 2023

Book-Banning Fever Hits a New Low in a Texas Town

At 9:30 a.m. on Aug. 2, when Assistant Principal Danny Guidry walked past the high school library in Granbury, Texas, he saw two figures moving in the darkened interior.

“There were flashing lights from the phones looking at some books,” he later reported in an email to the district office made public by a parent’s open records request.

Guidry entered and asked if he could be of assistance. He informed the two they were in a restricted part of the building.

“It was dark and difficult to see,” he wrote. “One of the ladies identified herself as Karen Lowery, Board Trustee.”

Lowery is indeed a member of the Granbury Independent School District board. Security video would show that she and another woman, Carolyn Reeves, had entered the library an hour and a half earlier, around 8 a.m., repeatedly switching the lights off when a motion detector turned them on.

Exactly what the two were doing there remains a mystery, and they have failed to respond to requests for comment, as has the school board, the school board president, and the school superintendent.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/book-banning-fever-granbury-texas-school-trustee-karen-lowery-snuck-into-library?ref=home

Who'd a thunk it? A Karen being a Karen! And another one too!

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Book-Banning Fever Hits a New Low in a Texas Town (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Aug 2023 OP
They were undoubtedly firing up the coffee maker..... Karadeniz Aug 2023 #1
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