Time for more people to put up a #littlefreelibrary in their neighborhood. This is ours. https://littlefreelibrary.org/ is the link that can show you where they are near you. There are > 200k little free libraries worldwide.
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writers wrote & readers read before public education existed. people have learned to read/write in the most dire of circumstances. do you think the writers of slave narratives had the benefit of K-12 schools?
most public schools here don't teach students from start to end, K-12 is just a way to describe the pre-college-level schools that are most of the public education system. most funding for these schools comes from local taxes, but some programs are federally funded (e.g. free/reduced price lunches)
Given the history of the 20th century, how could anybody be in favor of book burning? I’m completely opposed to censorship and book burning. I don’t even think the three most dangerous books ever written should be banned.
I don’t even believe in banning books written by book banners like Ron DeSantis. The best thing to do is to bypass those books when you see them on store shelves. Let them be relegated to discount bins at Goodwill or flea markets. Let them fade into irrelevancy.
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and the internet will record, and the pirates will pirate, and the collectors will save records. Even if all the books were burned and all records were wiped off the internet, someone will have a copy in a personal server or some external hard drive somewhere.
When I was 15 (many, many years ago!) The local librarian called my mom to tell her I wanted to read West Side Story. She did not want me to read it! My mom did not care! Moving ahead, my 5th grade son went to see a live production! Reading should never be prevented!
I have never once seen "porn in elementary schools", and I worked for a district for over a decade, often seeing their libraries myself. So again, what are you blathering on about?
Gen Z women are having a massive reading moment because of Tiktok, actually. It’s kinda wholesome to see how concepts like book clubs have adapted to the modern age, and now readers all across the globe can be connected through a simple comment section. A good thing to have these days.
this just gave me a great idea. We have a little library and I have a stack of "banned books" I have read in the last year. I was waiting to give them to someone else willing to read banned books, but instead I am going to start putting them in our little library.
So far every book I have read, except one, belongs on high school library shelves. The only one I would say, might need to be in a place where it has to be asked for is one that is a cartoon style book just following the path of a person who ends up being asexual in the end. But it is a bit graphic
Remember kids, banned books are the best books! Sneak a forbidden book and read!
(I'm not joking, I am seriously advising children to sneak books behind their parents and teachers backs and read them. This is where we're at right now.)
Book banning has been going on in the states for centuries (to be fair, it has in every country), but it became more prevalent in 2021 in the US. As for banning the Bible in the US I think you're more likely to get "banned" than that book 🤣
Funny thing that: Burning physical books isn't going to help you much in this internet age. For every copy of a controversial book you burn, there will be five more on various sites for kids to download and read.
Reminds me of when my bigoted father burned my “men can get pregnant” book at age 15, ever since then I’ve identified as trans to be the biggest disappointment of a daughter possible to my shitty Nazi dad
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I regularly buy books from their banned list and put them in a few small libraries that I built along our community bike path.
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Not being an American I have no idea what a K-12 schools is. Certainly nothing in Australia.
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There are still good decent people out there.
Maybe that’s ok with you.
People way more powerful and less r3t@rd3d than you have tried.
Go to sleep.
(I'm not joking, I am seriously advising children to sneak books behind their parents and teachers backs and read them. This is where we're at right now.)
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Given their racist and bigoted history—and present—it might just be intentional.
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