Obviously not in the case you mentioned, but this discussion is more about cultural differences within the states vs a specific school board banning a book.
It’s further a discussion on what rights parents have to expose their children to what material. Especially if one’s opinion is that these books should be forcibly allowed in the school library (not saying that’s your opinion)
> In Pinellas County, that confluence of factors resulted in the removal of prize-winning author Toni Morrison’s first book, “The Bluest Eye,” from all high schools. The district acted after one parent complained about the book in one class at one high school.
> All graphic novels in the school library’s collection were recalled after parent Tim Reiland took issue with the school letting his teenage daughter borrow Blankets, an autobiographical coming-of-age story by Craig Thompson about questioning blind faith in a fundamentalist Christian household.
I still think this isn’t a failure of giving parents the right to what’s exposed to their children.
The points you mentioned, to me, are a case of the system not doing its job properly. A board not reviewing or representing the parents is not a problem with what parents have the right to show their children.
A simple waiver that parents sign, that details the more “edgy” (according to the local area/group) material to be available for check out for the kids seems to me to resolve much of this. Books won’t be banned, but parents have a say what their child can check out at the library.
Obviously not in the case you mentioned, but this discussion is more about cultural differences within the states vs a specific school board banning a book.
It’s further a discussion on what rights parents have to expose their children to what material. Especially if one’s opinion is that these books should be forcibly allowed in the school library (not saying that’s your opinion)