Here’s the rubric sent to teachers in Southlake, Texas, this week to help them decide which books to remove from their classrooms. It comes days after the district disciplined a teacher who’d had a copy of “This Book is Anti-Racist” in her class.
Story: nbcnews.com/news/us-news/s…
Story: nbcnews.com/news/us-news/s…
The rubric says that teachers should get rid of any books that present a singular, dominant narrative “in such a way that it ... may be considered offensive.” Some teachers wrapped their bookshelves with caution tape in protest. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/s…
This isn’t the first time the district has cracked down on the content shared in classrooms. Admins told teachers this year that they could no longer use Scholastic News, a current events magazine for kids, after parents complained that its articles showed a liberal bias.
“I feel like I’m in a dystopian novel,” a parent said. “Students and people sharing pictures of teachers’ bookshelves covered and telling kids they can’t read books on their shelves. Are we really that scared of our kids’ being exposed to stuff and being challenged?”
“How am I supposed to know what 44 sets of parents find offensive?” a Carroll teacher asked. “We’ve been told: ‘The parents are our clients. We have to do what they want.’ And this is what they want.”
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