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The 7 Board of Education directors in @WebsterGrovesSD vote as a unit, and in lockstep with the @WGSD_Supt

What influences their decision making? Without diversity of opinion, are we sure that the best decisions are being made?

Their handling of SB 775 gives us some insights Image
#moleg bill 2022 SB 775 seeks to keep sexually explicit materials out of public schools, defined as pictorial representations of sexual intercourse, direct physical stimulation of genitals, or sadomasochistic abuse.

@WebsterGrovesSD removed several books meeting this criteria: Image
To further set the background context, here are a few images from the books that were removed.

Visual depictions of oral sex, masturbation, and violent rape: ImageImageImageImage
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"(Roger Stone) protege Jacob Engels appeared at a School Board meeting, blending in with concerned parents, to discuss sex education books. When Engels took the mic, he read aloud an explicit passage from (the graphic novel) “Gender Queer: A Memoir.”"

washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/1…
This is exactly what I've been tweeting about. And again here's Maia Kobabe's graphic novel GENDER QUEER being used as scare tactic in school board meetings.

This is the book outraged zealots and professional rightwing plants wave around at school board meetings.

#bookbanning
This exact same performance is happening all around the country. The playbook was written by Christian Nationalist "think" tanks & creeps like Steve Bannon, & is bankrolled by dark money.

This is their plan of attack for 2022 and 2024.
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JFC.... Rep @keithellison, a member of our CONGRESS and former #DNC leader, who is now RUNNING FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL in #Minnesota is literally trying to get BOOKS BANNED on @Amazon based on what alt-left hate group SPLC thinks is "hate speech."
The day @Amazon agrees to BANNING BOOKS based on this hateful group who has maliciously and falsely slandered people is the day I will cancel my Prime membership and never order from them again.
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