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I did.  this was twenty years ago and she's long-retired now.
Sadly, none of the librarians I know now are anywhere near that cool.
I would like to not only have a list of approved books. But a list of books that do not meet approved standards. And they should have this list on a publicly accessible website. 
So everyone can "know" which books are so subversive. And have them listed by catagory and topic. And let the Streisand effect take place. >

😁 pretty sneaky. And it would work, too. >

I love libraries and book stores that have a banned book section. >

TEACHERS IN FLORIDA:
Washington state has a teacher shortage.
We have liberal areas and conservative areas.  We have urban areas and rural areas.  
We even have conservative urban areas and liberal rural areas.
Florida is a beautiful state, with dolphins and manatees.
Washington is also beautiful with orcas, rain forests, and skiing.
And most of the state is well above sea level.  I can see the Puget Sound from my window and have never been in a flood.
We have no state income tax. >

For the Florida teachers who don't wish to abandon their students or can't move for any reason:
OpenLibrary.org is a free, digital, public lending library completely online.  Now might be a good time to introduce your students to it.
You might not be able to give them books anymore, but that doesn't mean they can't get their own. >

Just wait until Ronny starts to demand ISPs in Florida begin to filter such websites. >

I think they'll find that forcing ISP's to block websites is much more difficult than bullying teachers. >

Okay. But is it harder than overseeing torture of innocent people in an offshore US military prison? >

Either I don't get your joke, or else your tinfoil hat is too tight again. >

Jesus. So he oversaw/prescribed torture for detainees in one place and then was sent to another to be in charge of making sure their human rights weren't violated? I already despised this sick shit and knew he was dangerous but that's just more proof.
Sad thing is is that there's a ton of Florida voters who would be happy to hear about his work at Guantanamo. I can just hear them now: "those terrorists deserve everything he gave them and then some!" Never mind that there are people being held there that have never actually been charged with a crime. >

Am I the only one picturing "Manatee Teachers"? >

Lmao. Me too for a half-second. Not knowing that is a place, and knowing Manatees are pretty intelligent mammals, I was like...'they have teachers? Is 'classroom' some related term to 'school' for aquatic mammals versus fish?.......[reads more] oh...that makes more sense.' >

Who's the hero putting up "Little Free Libraries" all over the Florida suburbs? >

Republicans: Remember kids be a free thinker and don't trust the government, but do what we say and always comply with the government because the government is your friend. >

I can't imagine being a parent, or a teacher in Florida right now, much less a student.  What a horrific environment to try to navigate with your kid(s). >

The party of "small government", yet they tell you what books you can or cannot read, what you can or cannot teach in school. They're telling you how to raise your own children. >

And they're telling you what's normal, and what's not.  As a government, they're telling kids who they have to be to fit in, and who must be shunned because they don't fit the rigid guidelines established by Republicans.
It sounds like a dystopian novel. >

Exactamundo. 
And they're always the ones crying about "indoctrination". >

They're trying desperately to reach the kids while they still have time because the younger voters are destroying them at the polls. And it's only gonna get worse for them. This is the repubs last ditch effort to save themselves from the inevitable future... >

I guarantee that the bible isn't on any of the banned lists in Flordystopia, regardless of all the "not age appropriate" crap that's in it.
Aside from their smooth brained base, do they really think anyone is buying the "for the children" bullsh*t? >

Florida teacher here. Several excerpts from the Bible are in my public school curriculum. >

Wtf. >

The Bible is a very important part of Western literature. It absolutely should be taught in public school. Nobody questions the appropriateness of learning Greek mythology and it hasn’t lead to an epidemic of Zeus worshipping. 
Knowing what the Bible says and being required to believe it are two completely different things. >


Knowing what the Bible says and being required to believe it are two completely different things.

Technically, sure.  But I'll bet you $5 that when the bible is covered in public schools in Florida it isn't described as "Christian Mythology" akin to "Greek Mythology." >

So are you saying that we shouldn't teach an important part of Western culture and literature because people might take it as public schools endorsing religion? >

Teach it along other texts for the sake of history, fine. But I doubt they are teaching along side the Koran or Torah…….which is precisely what my liberal as fuck school did when teaching the history of the Middle East. >

451°f >

I get the feeling, someone was bullied by the nerds as a child and is now waging a war on education >

Not really. They are doing what has always worked before. They are using apolitical children as political tools. Fabricating an existential threat to children in order to cause a fear based response of things that are different than what your comfortable with that can be easily defeated with the amount of power they currently already wield. Thus their strawman evil was stopped in its tracks and those innocent children will not be tainted by exposure to reality. Critical thinking being struck down is more or less the extra benefit on the side to them. But that's long term and not as important as reminding the people why they need you to protect them from "the other". >


"They can be charged with a third-degree felony,” said Patricia Barber, the president of the county’s teachers union.

I would absolutely love to see that challenged. >

Which person on a teacher’s income is ready to volunteer to spend a few hundred thousand dollars in legal bills and risk having a felony on their record (which means they will never work as a teacher and possibly any other job more lucrative than “gas station attendant” ever again)? >

A teacher near retirement with the backing of some first amendment rights group (if not the teachers union itself). Similar to how the NAACP selected Rosa Parks to sit in the front of a bus. >

This is just downright scary. Not to mention this guy (Desnatis) is going to run for president. >

Unless the Democrats can get their shit together, he’ll win. >

I agree, and it is very scary >

Democrats don’t realize they have become the conservatives. Not “conservative” as in right wing, but “conservative” as in defending the status quo, risk averse, and defending the interests of the current elites. 
Republicans are the populists looking to overthrow the old regime. The populists already overthrew the old Bush/McCain/Romney GOP without much of an effort. That their program is reactionary doesn’t mean they aren’t radicals. 
The problem for the Democrats is that the status quo is a sure loser, but given the choice between radical left wing change and radical right wing change, the American people will choose the latter every time. Both going center and going left are losing propositions, but for completely different reasons. 
We romanticize Revolution because of 1776, but not all revolutions are progressive or good. Sometime the people just want to watch the world burn. >

Since the parents can come in the classroom just to look at the books for their approval - let them teach their kids home. Fuck all this censorship. Keep tying the hands of our teachers and we won’t have any left. >

I mean, that’s the end goal for the assholes making these laws. >

Close the public schools and make the only choice private schools where they can force their white supremacy views >

Florida's kids are going to be the most out of work, imprisoned welfare dependent generation in history.  They are going to be to stupid to work anywhere but the church as all they will know is warped religious history. >

Going to be?  Have you ever been to Florida??  They have been intellectually starving their kids for generations now and this is not a surprising consequence. >

I've often thought of Florida as my Plan B if I need to find another place to live with my fourth grader. DeSantis is for sure giving me reason to reconsider. >

The entire state is going to be underwater in a few decades and gets hurricanes? What's plan A?! >

Is there a contest going on for who can be the most shit hole state in the country or something? >

I think I preferred it when the school motto wasn’t ‘knowledge is dangerous’ >

“A parent has a right to search and know what books are in their child’s classroom,” 
Therefore- cover them up!  Problem solved /s >

If the parent is such a Karen that they need to know the names of every book in the school library then they really ought to be homeschooling their kids. They can't keep their kids as sheltered as they want and send them to a public school >

But then they won’t have control over other people too. >

That is a big part of the appeal, isn't it. >

Words and pictures = Woke propaganda >

Someone needs to make a case for the first amendment and sue the florida government >

They will, but until that happens in a few months/years its the law and regular people will be crushed by the fascists while they wait for legitimate courts to hear the cases. >

The goal is to destroy public schools. They’re getting you all fired up about the implementation details so you overlook the ultimate goal. >

How do we make this comment louder? >

Is “The Christians guide to slaughtering non-believers” still allowed? >

Most people aren't going to go through the hassle of combing the library of books they own and provide free of charge to students/districts. They're just going to stop providing any books. Enter the companies that can now sell the needed approved books to districts. >

GOP or the Party of short sighted knee-jerk identity politics.
Red states seem to be actively working to reduce the average IQ of their populations, it wont be long before they have multiple generations who's problem solving abilities rival that of a smooth rock and who knows what will happen when one of them is put in charge of something critical... >

Perfect! The rapturing is what they've always wanted. >

This is some scary shit. >

Did you bother to ya know, maybe click the link and read? >

When my son went into 7th grade we went to back to school night and his English teacher, a very energetic young woman in her 2nd year teaching took questions. There were some about what they'd read, and she carefully navigated that topic. Afterward I went up to her and said 'All of the books you mentioned were banned books, is that a coincidence?' She gave a little smile and said, yeah, that's the district-wide standard. The majority of books they'll read until grade 12 are or were on someone banned book list. I gave her my full support for that idea. It's still like that. 
Understand, this is one of the most highly regarded school districts in the state. People move here constantly just to get access to the schools (also one of the more expensive cities in the state, so we're talking real money). That reading list is a part of why students do so well. Hard to teach critical thinking if you aren't reading things that need to be explored critically. 
My background is in college admissions. Worked on applicant selection at a major university. Florida is putting their students at a real disadvantage and really doing tremendous harm to their university systems and eventually their economy. >

My library did an display of banned books. Really good idea! How better to increase reading then say "this is what they don't want you to read!" >

My librarian did that, too.  And she supplied cookies and hot cocoa and cider non-stop during banned books week.
That's how I discovered Harry Potter, actually.  Goblet of Fire had just come out and it was the largest book on the "Banned Books" display.  I hadn't really heard of the series at that point and when I told Mrs White that she handed me a copy of Sorcerer's Stone.
She had a personal vendetta about Banned Books.  She'd come to the school after leaving a public library where the library board restricted certain books from their shelves.  As the librarian of my school, when funds were released to buy books, she always bought off the banned lists first. >

You have a good librarian, treat her right.