Those legal issues may in fact occur soon, but in the meantime, the board is setting up a citizen’s committee to review naughty books. If we go to court over it, so be it, because at the end of the day we’re standing up for what’s right and for what God has said is right and true. “They aren’t protecting Black lives.”īoard member David Valesky on the possibility of legal challenges to the board’s new rules: “That’s a group that is for destroying,” he said. Valesky said there were four books on the list that “openly promote the hate group Black Lives Matter.” “I don’t have an issue if we’re giving books that’s targeting education of the Civil War and slavery and there is racism even today, but this is obviously like shoving it down every corner,” he said. Its actually being promoted to the point where it’s even ‘cool’.īoard member David Valesky on books about race in American history: They aren’t at school to be brainwashed into thinking homosexuality is okay. Penncrest has been trying to wield a tiny tattered fig leaf over its motivations for a new set of rules aimed at getting LGBTQ+ books out of its libraries, even as some board members have been quite clear about what they mean by “sexualized content,” and while we’re at it, all that racism stuff, too.īoard member David Valesky on LGBTQ books in the library:īesides the point of being totally evil, this is not what we need to be teaching kids. Laurie Halse Anderson is still in shock February 17, 2023 What we are seeing today in Central Bucks School District is just the latest chapter in the history of the right’s long war against public education – and progress in general. Someday I’ll tell you the story of a local district that fired a teacher for being gay, didn’t bother to cover that reason with even a tiny fig leaf, and was really surprised when they were dragged into court and lost. That happens a variety of reasons, not the least of which is that the rest of the state doesn’t pay much attention to what rural districts do. But it’s worth paying attention to, because here in the rural school region, it’s not unusual for board members to say the quiet part out loud because they don’t realize they shouldn’t. Penncrest is a small rural district up the road from me, a district that has been mirroring the reading suppression battles of the more famous Central Bucks School District (and by mirror, I mean that some folks on the Penncrest board appear to be literally copying some of the Central Bucks work).īut Central Bucks is a big district in the busy part of the state, and Penncrest is a tiny district up in the wilderness, so it’s not getting much attention.
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