When parents don’t want sexually explicit books in their children’s public school libraries, the media calls it book banning. What do they call this?
The College Fix reports:
Progressive teachers want ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ banished from curriculumThere’s been a lot of discussion lately about book “banning,” primarily focused on conservative parents’ and politicians’ efforts to restrict access to material which is sexually explicit.While these efforts often have been labeled everything from “terrorism” to “scary” to a “threat to the Republic,” machinations from the opposite side of the political aisle are framed in a positive light — if not outright lauded.A recent Washington Post story highlighted the efforts of a quartet of Washington State teachers to ditch the Harper Lee classic “To Kill a Mockingbird” in the name of racial enlightenment.In their formal challenge, the teachers wrote that the novel “centers on whiteness” and “presents a barrier to understanding and celebrating an authentic Black point of view in Civil Rights era literature.”Riley Degamo (pictured), Shanta Freeman-Miller, Rachel Johnson, and Verena Kuzmany of the Mukilteo School District said they “saw themselves as part of an urgent national reckoning with racism, a necessary reconsideration of what we value, teach and memorialize following the killing of George Floyd.”Johnson said she had listened to a black-hosted podcast which noted the novel “ranked with Confederate monuments as something painful to Black people, but which White people adored.”Kuzmany claimed both her black and white students “disliked” the book, with one writing “This is f—— bulls—” on a book-related assignment.Kuzmany said she doesn’t think “White authors and White characters should tell the narratives of African American people.”Nevertheless, the quartet said they didn’t object to the book being in school libraries or being made available for optional, individual student reading.
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