Nightmare in the School Library

This spring I have been involved with a small group of adults concerned about the sexual nature of books in the local school library. Suddenly it's the "in thing" to have "young adult" reading material for school kids available through the school libraries that in the views of many concerned parents cross the line. Many adults have begun fighting this trend through their school boards triggering a federal educator agency to request that the United States Department of Justice under Eric Garland deem these American patriots as "domestic terrorists" under existing anti-terrorism laws triggered by the 9/11 terrorist attack back in September of 2001. Back then it was Muslim jihadi terrorists. Now under President Biden it's Republicans that threaten America. Maybe you've heard.

In my work I came across a website called booklooks.org which has an extensive list of such books that have been showing up in school libraries. Cross-referencing the list in BookLooks with the local middle school - high school library I found 95 of these offensive books in the school's library catalog available to students. I made my findings known but I and the group I have been working with ran into a situation where the local school officials are unwilling (unable) to remove any of the books for fear of lawsuits against the school district if they took such an action.

Unbelievable I know...

but...

Who would sue a school district for removing books that many adults and parents feel are pornographic from school libraries? Who would be that low?

Low and behold, the other day I came across the answer to that question.

Making national news:

Penguin Random House and Florida parents sue school district over book bans