The Keller Independent School District in Texas is reviewing at least 41 books that the school board has recommended to ban from school libraries.
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Ahead of the first day of school, the Keller Independent School District is removing all books that were challenged last year within the school district, including the Bible, “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison and a graphic novel adaptation of Anne Frank’s “The Diary of Young Girl.”
The direction to remove all 41 books surprised some local residents because a school district committee made up of members of the public met last year and recommended that some of the books now being removed — including Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” and “Anne Frank’s Diary” — remain in student libraries.
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Misleading and sensationalism misleading and sensationalism misleading and sensationalism misleading and sensationalism
Texas is wilding.
Texas is regressing.
Ban books, burn books; same thing.
This is crazy crazy the Lord says that the bad and evil will multiply and this is crazy but yet they are letting lgbtq xyz book and teachings to our children with no concent to parents. Instead of teaching them REAL history THAT MADE A DIFFERENCE.
What does The Diary of Anne Frank have to do with your rant?
There has to be more to it than this. I mean why the Bible? Why Anne Frank? Why The Bluest Eye? And if the UK can teach about the slave trade – the problems caused by the partitioning India as well as things like the Opium Wars – then why are you over in the States so worried about having teens discuss racism?