Now California needs to make a law that any books that have a sexual content rating cannot be sold to public schools. Vendors can then choose between which state they want to sell.
this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2023
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This book is known in the state of California to be potentially cancerous.
Better to provide context than promote censorship.
Vendors will up the cost to cover additional labour, the books won't be in the school budget anymore and conservatives'll have got what they wanted
Man I'm so worried for future generations of kids. I hope they can persevere through the hobbled addition system and find their way to an open education. Lest they be accepting of the dumbing down of everything.
I'm proud of my son. He decided to read a book based on "it was banned in some school districts" (not ours). He then scoffed at the reason for the ban.
I can't recall the book title at the moment, but the reason was that two characters have sex and the incident takes up one page. From what my son described, it wasn't overly graphic. This wasn't an erotica sex scene tossed into the book. It was just the normal kind of story description of events. Books like the Bible have much more graphic content.