Flaugh (FLCA) prefers the word "prohibit" be used instead of “ban.”
Why? Book banning doesn’t poll well.
But when you demand a book about 2 male penguins sitting on an egg be “prohibited” because it’s “inappropriate”, you’re a book-banning homophobe. news-press.com/story/news/edu…
“While Flaugh said he's glad that school districts in Florida are working on how to "protect children" from books with what he said is obscene material, he added that most of the districts aren't going far enough.”
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"We'll be continuing to work in the legislative cycle to get some additional teeth in that," Flaugh said.
FLCA in 2017 drafted the legislation that allowed ANY CITIZEN to challenge a book in public schools (instead of only parents with students enrolled in the District).
They also heavily lobbied for all three #EdScare laws and two of their leaders served on DeSantis’ transition committee in December 2018.
They are well connected to this administration. A visit to their website proves their goal is promoting school school & dismantling the DOE.
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Tina D. lies & says her group
focuses on "pornography in school.” She adds, "I haven't seen any of our
chapters that want to get rid of any books that help children find characters they identify with."
Look in your home base, Tina. Indian River’s list calls out “CRT” (bolded).
Here’s the rest of the list, constructed & submitted by Chapter Chair Jennifer Pippen.
She offers her support to teachers to help catalog their classrooms libraries, but doesn’t trust retried media specialists to assist with her bulk book reviews. She warns 200 more are coming.
So, let’s not pretend that they love our teachers and respect what they do.
Here are the emails to prove all this. Go to their public FB page and see her call the teacher that taped up the classroom library as playing a “victim” and bringing politics into the classroom.
How did this happen? Well, Palm Beach and Indian River (another district named in the suit) put out a classroom library checklist to comply with the new laws, but only asked teachers to pull books where characters were questioning their sexual orientation/gender identity.
The public didn’t call for it, so don’t start your article:
To ban or not to ban? It's a question school districts are having to deal with more frequently amid a growing movement nationally for the censorship of reading materials in public schools. firstcoastnews.com/article/news/e…
Losing count on how many reporters have allowed @DuvalSchools this narrative.
You’re the press. The First Amendment should be important to defend whether it’s your job or the education of our students.
The access that was there has been denied for 9 mths now w/ no review plan.
You @FCN2go had the chance to ask Duval how they would manage the new book banning era with just 34 media specialists in a district of more than 200 schools.
Or why they chose to remove all 176 titles from an inclusive book collection instead of just the few books of concern.
Out of 44 challenges by M4L last spring, 35 remain in an “informal” status even though Brevard revised its policy to allow for districtwide reviews of books.
Why hasn’t M4L made their requests for consideration “formal” in the last few months to allow for community review?
Well, look at how successful they were with applying public pressure on the principals and submitting their own “book reviews.”
When you look at the outcomes of the community reviews across the state, they do not have as high a “success rate” of removals.
M4L “library committee chair” isn’t *just* concerned about her child’s access, she wants to assert her beliefs on behalf of all families.
She wants Brevard to pull books first because they did in the past and other districts did as well w/o being called out for 1A infringement.
Bad laws don't just happen. They are the result of a political party with full control refusing to listen to the concerns of the other side.
Give us six minutes of your time and watch highlights from the final committee hearing on HB1467:
The shortest clip in here is @RandolphBracy asking the bill sponsor if the ONLY way a book is banned is if it is challenged by a parent or community member.
He swiftly responds "yes."
At least 50 books have been removed by district leadership without a formal challenge.
@FarmerForFLSen explains the concerns of passing this bill w/o funding attached - this is key to issue we see that delays getting books that are "temporarily" removed for months through the review process- the schools do not have the people in place to properly review the books.
We will not let them get away with classifying the removal of books from the classroom library shelves for almost nine months as anything but a temporary ban on inclusive, age appropriate books. news.wjct.org/first-coast/20…
Here they were very clear that the books were on shelves and pulled into storage without a true plan to quickly review- and all because a few books on the list appeared in challenges in other districts - which made the district believe they were too “mature”
And digging into it further - you can check the library catalog for the LGBTQ+ books that were in the “Essential Voices” collection and see just how many titles aren’t available even in the library. (Hint: most of them)