Order to Remove Dozens of Challenged Books in Texas, Including the Bible, Is an Appalling Violation of Students Rights, says PEN America pen.org/press-release/… #BookBans #TheBible #StudentsRights
One day before the start of the start of the 2022 school year, the Keller Independent School District in #Texas has ordered school officials to remove all copies of previously challenged books—including #TheBible—from school shelves and from the districts’ online library catalog.
PEN America's Jonathan Friedman (@jonfreadom) described the action in #Texas as, "an appalling affront to students’ #FirstAmendment rights."
"It is virtually impossible to run a school or a library that purges books in response to any complaint from any corner," he added.
"It is virtually impossible to run a school or a library that purges books in response to any complaint from any corner," he added.
Friedman continued: “This directive tramples on the work of the committee members who opted to keep these books available in schools when they were challenged, and it even means removing works for which complaints were apparently withdrawn, such as for #TheBible...."
"The whole situation reflects trends across the country toward educational #censorship, a recipe for anodyne schools and lowest-common denominator education. This directive from Keller ISD ought to be repealed immediately," concluded Friedman (@jonfreadom).
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