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Mar 11 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
If you think it's crazy to fathom educator FIRED for reading the book "I Need a New Butt" to 2nd grade kids... wait til you read about the banning of the same book, along with "Freddie the Farting Snowman" in a public library in Llano, Texas. burnetbulletin.com/news/banned-ll…
In Llano, the public library's board has also closed its meeting to the public and continued to remove books like Robie Harris's "It's Perfectly Normal". dailytrib.com/2022/03/04/lla…
You may remember Llano from the time they shut it down to review all the content of children's books in December... the result appears to have been -- shocker -- more bans kvue.com/article/news/l…
In Dec the library board also --oddly-- suspended the library's online services. They say it was for "review." Local citizen advocates tell me it was done to ban books that could be accessed on the online system. Books like Lawn Boy and Gender Queer. kxan.com/news/local/hil…
Local group has now formed to oppose the rampant censorship. Basic questions remain about why decisions were taken, why certain books are disappearing. The campaign to control schools and school boards has a sister movement to control libraries. dailytrib.com/2022/03/07/ant…

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Mar 13
The movement for school "transparency" (aka, teacher surveillance) notched TWO victories in FL this wk.

One bill mandates public websites to search all books/instructional materials used in K-12 schools.

The other does the same for public #highered.
#EdScare 🧵
The K-12 bill (HB1467) mandates public websites to search all books and instructional materials used in schools -- meaning: anything & everything students might see: textbooks, reading lists, manipulatives, electronic media, learning laboratories... wtsp.com/article/news/p…
But the higher ed bill (SB7044) is similar! Others have focused on how it threatens tenure & accreditation.

But it *also* directs all FL colleges & universities to create public searchable websites listing ALL instructional materials for ALL courses. 👀tampabay.com/news/education…
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Mar 11
HB 1467 in FL now heads to DeSantis. Supporters say it "increases transparency" in the selection of books and instructional materials. But as with the whole "transparency" movement, you have to wonder what the bill ACTUALLY does... 🧵 wtsp.com/article/news/p…
The bill establishes term limits for school boards, but the real emphasis is on policies to strictly monitor access to books in schools, in curriculum, libraries, classroom libraries, heck, even on reading lists. flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2…
First it establishes that every school board must have a policy for a parent or "resident of the county" to object or contest to any book/material in a school or on a reading list. They can object to anything, based on two grounds:
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Mar 11
At @PENamerica we coined the term the #EdScare to capture the unprecedented and multifaceted efforts to intimidate teachers, legislate prohibitions on classroom discussions, and ban books. Here’s what this all looks like right now in one state:

Florida.
The spotlight has rightfully been on the #DontSayGay bill and its ban on “instruction” about sexual orientation and gender identity. But the Sunshine State has become a hotbed for all kinds of education censorship. /2
First, there’s the “STOP WOKE Act” (HB 7) which has cleared the legislature and is now on its way to DeSantis’s desk. The bill will ban educators from teaching certain concepts related to race in schools & colleges. /3 floridaphoenix.com/2022/03/10/gop…
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Mar 4
Mississippi will be the 11th state to sign an educational gag order into law, with the passage of SB 2113 by the House. Similar to a bill in Idaho, this is the 2nd state with a bill that explicitly targets academic instruction in higher education. #EdScare supertalk.fm/anti-crt-bill-…
It reads: "No public institution of higher learning, community/junior college, school district or public school, including public charter schools, shall teach a course of instruction or unit of study that directs or otherwise compels students... legiscan.com/MS/text/SB2113…
... to personally affirm, adopt or adhere..." to certain tenets regarding race, sex, ethnicity, religion or national origin.

The bill also prohibits these institutions from making any "distinction or classification of students based on account of race." Vague what that means.
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Mar 4
The #DontSayGay Bill in FL moves to the senate floor Monday, then likely to DeSantis. The legislation is draconian, banning conversations in schools about LGBTQ+ lives.

But it's just the tip of the iceberg around the country in the #EdScare. 🧵 /1 thehill.com/changing-ameri…
In TN, HB 800 is under consideration. It would outlaw school materials and textbooks that “promote, normalize, support, or address” LGBTQ issues. Even just "addressing" them! It receives another committee vote on Tuesday. /2 tennessean.com/story/opinion/…
In KS, HB2662 sounds like a pretty standard educational gag order targeting graphic content. But the bill defines “sexual conduct” as anything relating to homosexuality. "Depicting" a same-sex couple could land you in a Kansas courthouse. /3 slate.com/news-and-polit…
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Dec 2, 2021
After a year of "review" Leander ISD in Texas has now banned 11 books from its optional book club reading lists -- and will be proceeding to ensure no student has access to them in classroom libraries. A profound shame. #FReadom
Here's the 11 banned books. Sorry to see them remove works by @MargaretAtwood @ashleyhopeperez @ShaunieDarko @amyreedfiction @ashleyhopeperez @JackieWoodson @miles_hyman @halseanderson. But they have kept works by @nikkigrimes9 @colleenaf @aaron007 @marikotamaki and others.
Some of these banned 11 books are still accessible in school libraries in Leander; but Machado's 'In the Dream House' and Hutchinson's 'Brave Face' are not in the library collections, so they're effectively inaccessible in the district now.
docs.google.com/document/d/1UD…
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