waheifilmguy t1_jdw72by wrote
WAs hoping this bullshit wouldn't make its way to Rhody, but here we are. I guess it was inevitable. Interesting how people want to keep their kids "innocent" until they are adults...how the F are they going to function in a world they have no conception of?
LibraryGoddess t1_jdwa5m0 wrote
It's already in RI. From the public spectacles at the NK School Committee meetings over the graphic novel Gender Queer, that same book's banning in Lincoln, to the Smithfield School Committee meeting that tried to have 3 children's books removed from the elementary libraries, it's already here.
waheifilmguy t1_jdwadkh wrote
Well that sucks to hear. I hadn't seen those stories.
VectorPunk t1_jdxezqo wrote
This happening throughout the country. There is no longer a “blue-red” state divide but rather a rural, poorly educated and suburban/urban educated divide.
Gorillamonsoon2 t1_je69u43 wrote
Happened in North Smithfield last year too: https://youtu.be/zEfz7RcBySQ?t=180, https://nrinow.news/2022/02/22/parents-in-north-smithfield-question-presence-of-inappropriate-books-in-public-school-libraries/
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