![]() ![]() ![]() But on that subject, those same governors and advocacy groups will give you only loud silence.Ĭonsider the picture Kentucky Rep. You may look at what happened last week at a high school in Oxford, Michigan - four students killed, six more and a teacher wounded - and say that what we need to protect our children from is the fact that any troubled classmate can too easily obtain a weapon of mass destruction with which to work through his teenage angst. ![]() Deborah Caldwell-Stone, executive director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, called it “an unprecedented volume of challenges.” From Texas to South Carolina, to Virginia to Florida and beyond, conservative governors and advocacy groups are removing books from school library shelves, particularly those that deal with the two subjects they find most threatening: sexuality and race. As Time magazine recently reported, librarians are seeing a definite spike in censorship activity. ![]()
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