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As an 8th grade teacher in "Blue" Massachusetts, we've had to defend curriculum books every year from parents, and local politicians looking to make a name. Never mind political groups demanding to investigate our library collection, or every reading used in class.
As an 8th grade teacher in "Blue" Massachusetts, we've had to defend curriculum books every year from parents, and local politicians looking to make a name. Never mind political groups demanding to investigate our library collection, or every reading used in class.
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Andrew Karre
Book banning is real and is terrorizing teachers, librarians & students from marginalized identities now. It is worse than it has ever been. If you’re remembering your quaint “Celebrate Freedom. Read a Banned Book” T-shirt, adjust your perspective. You’ve brought an umbrella to a hurricane.
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And after a challenge fails, many of those parents opt their kids out of the curriculum.
Mostly just hurting their own child, but also setting the teacher up as the enemy.
But, fuck it, I guess. Here I am.
Check in with your school committees, and be as loud as the people trying to ban books.
But you can't placate hate without giving up your soul.