This isn't about protecting children. It's about power and control and because Republicans can't win elections, this is the underhanded, backwards way you've chosen to go about it. Shame on you. Parents should make these decisions privately. No public school has sexually explicit material the way your sick minds picture it.
You got ONE part right: parent's should be able to make these decisions, and the school library is ROBBING parents of that right and responsibility.
Here is one of the "books" (should be labeled as propaganda) you say doesn't exist, and Proverbs 1:32 says "For the waywardness of the naive will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them." Open your eyes and see what is happening to our country, don't be naive or complacent.
Your improper use of an apostrophe tells me you should read more books.
What are your credentials, other than being a white Christian conservative woman.
Do you hold a masters or EDD in Library Science?
“Book Looks dot org” takes excerpts completely out of context, without considering how a book could positively impact a student in terms of understanding other people and developing empathy, preventing bullying, and helping some students to feel seen, represented, and understood.
Oh dear. Your insult is elitist and petty. It's also funny because you used improper punctuation in two sentences. You should worry about your own grammar before criticizing someone else's. While everyone is capable of a grammatical error, your position that children should have access to pornography and explicit materials in their schools is highly disturbing. All children need the same protection, regardless of identity. It doesn't take a graduate degree to understand this, but it just so happens that I have professional expertise in the field of education.
The issue is NOT whether the material is appropriate according to YOU, or anyone else, the issue is that it is not appropriate for MY CHILDREN in MY OPINION, which is MY RIGHT as their MOTHER. If you think these books are appropriate for your children then buy them for your children, but do not impose their exposure on to my family, as THAT is not your right.
Not that it's any of your business, since you didn't share your credentials, but I have a Bachelors of Science in Psychology, and a Masters in Theological Studies, in addition to being a mother of 11 (which I'm sure you'll attack me for next). Apostrophes, like commas, aren't as rule binding as you seem to think; you're using punctuation nitpicking to deflect from the fact that you have no argument against my inherent and God given right to instruct my own children's upbringing.
How wretched. How unfree and sad. To deprive one another of the vast majesty of the human condition in the name of...of what!? Some imagined protection? People have fought and died for expression and the written word. You do your children a grave disservice when you hide the world from them, when you underestimate their joyous and rightfully boundless curiosity. Education - the great enlightenment - is the birthright of all. No one can or should determine what others can access. Please stop this lunacy.
No one should determine what "others" can access??? Are you kidding me???? At a MINIMUM I, the parent, the mother, who carried and birthed MY CHILD, should have the right to determine what MY children can and can't access as minor children. The state, the school, and the libraries, are all taking that RIGHT away from me, while providing me no recourse to not pay taxes to fund them, and not allowing me to have school choice and defund them for taking my parental rights away.
Prayer is taken out of schools, kids can't wear "there are two genders" t-shirts to school, and the Christian Bible isn't allowed, but porn and the description and illustration of sexually deviant behaviors, that is something minor children in a restricted environment, shrouded away from their parents, and paid for by taxpayers, should have access to?!? Yeah, thats complete hypocritical nonsense.
Maybe YOU don't mind YOUR minor children being exposed to this pornography, but I do and it is 100% absolutely my right AND my responsibility to raise my children up to be good people, and NOT lascivious perverted creatures who can't or won't procreate because they've been messed up in the head by the perverted and deviant society people are trying to create and make 'normal.' If gender dysphoria and homosexuality were 'normal' they'd be able to procreate and have children *together,* just the fact that they can't is a big sign from 'nature' (since I'm sure you don't believe in the one true God) that those behaviors are NOT normal.
Also, the Bible is actually in most school libraries in Texas and available for checking out. Most Texas communities are very diverse now. There are people of all religions as well as non-religious. If you want only Christian values, you’re able to find a private school or homeschool. If you want a theocratic government, feel free to move to the Middle East.
The keyword here is “MY”, meaning your own children, and if they are in high school and you still cannot trust them to choose their own reading material, how do you trust them to make any other mature decisions in their lives when you’re not around? How do they operate a deadly weapon (aka, a vehicle and for some, a gun)? How do they work a summer or after school job? How do they go away to college and think with their own minds? I understand being protective of your own children, but the public school library is for ALL tax payers’ of a district’s children as well as high school students.
This isn't about protecting children. It's about power and control and because Republicans can't win elections, this is the underhanded, backwards way you've chosen to go about it. Shame on you. Parents should make these decisions privately. No public school has sexually explicit material the way your sick minds picture it.
You got ONE part right: parent's should be able to make these decisions, and the school library is ROBBING parents of that right and responsibility.
Here is one of the "books" (should be labeled as propaganda) you say doesn't exist, and Proverbs 1:32 says "For the waywardness of the naive will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them." Open your eyes and see what is happening to our country, don't be naive or complacent.
http://booklooks.org/data/files/Book%20Looks%20Reports/S/SEX%20an%20uncensored%20introduction.pdf
Your improper use of an apostrophe tells me you should read more books.
What are your credentials, other than being a white Christian conservative woman.
Do you hold a masters or EDD in Library Science?
“Book Looks dot org” takes excerpts completely out of context, without considering how a book could positively impact a student in terms of understanding other people and developing empathy, preventing bullying, and helping some students to feel seen, represented, and understood.
Oh dear. Your insult is elitist and petty. It's also funny because you used improper punctuation in two sentences. You should worry about your own grammar before criticizing someone else's. While everyone is capable of a grammatical error, your position that children should have access to pornography and explicit materials in their schools is highly disturbing. All children need the same protection, regardless of identity. It doesn't take a graduate degree to understand this, but it just so happens that I have professional expertise in the field of education.
Christin Bentley, M.S.
The issue is NOT whether the material is appropriate according to YOU, or anyone else, the issue is that it is not appropriate for MY CHILDREN in MY OPINION, which is MY RIGHT as their MOTHER. If you think these books are appropriate for your children then buy them for your children, but do not impose their exposure on to my family, as THAT is not your right.
Not that it's any of your business, since you didn't share your credentials, but I have a Bachelors of Science in Psychology, and a Masters in Theological Studies, in addition to being a mother of 11 (which I'm sure you'll attack me for next). Apostrophes, like commas, aren't as rule binding as you seem to think; you're using punctuation nitpicking to deflect from the fact that you have no argument against my inherent and God given right to instruct my own children's upbringing.
How wretched. How unfree and sad. To deprive one another of the vast majesty of the human condition in the name of...of what!? Some imagined protection? People have fought and died for expression and the written word. You do your children a grave disservice when you hide the world from them, when you underestimate their joyous and rightfully boundless curiosity. Education - the great enlightenment - is the birthright of all. No one can or should determine what others can access. Please stop this lunacy.
No one should determine what "others" can access??? Are you kidding me???? At a MINIMUM I, the parent, the mother, who carried and birthed MY CHILD, should have the right to determine what MY children can and can't access as minor children. The state, the school, and the libraries, are all taking that RIGHT away from me, while providing me no recourse to not pay taxes to fund them, and not allowing me to have school choice and defund them for taking my parental rights away.
Prayer is taken out of schools, kids can't wear "there are two genders" t-shirts to school, and the Christian Bible isn't allowed, but porn and the description and illustration of sexually deviant behaviors, that is something minor children in a restricted environment, shrouded away from their parents, and paid for by taxpayers, should have access to?!? Yeah, thats complete hypocritical nonsense.
Maybe YOU don't mind YOUR minor children being exposed to this pornography, but I do and it is 100% absolutely my right AND my responsibility to raise my children up to be good people, and NOT lascivious perverted creatures who can't or won't procreate because they've been messed up in the head by the perverted and deviant society people are trying to create and make 'normal.' If gender dysphoria and homosexuality were 'normal' they'd be able to procreate and have children *together,* just the fact that they can't is a big sign from 'nature' (since I'm sure you don't believe in the one true God) that those behaviors are NOT normal.
Also, the Bible is actually in most school libraries in Texas and available for checking out. Most Texas communities are very diverse now. There are people of all religions as well as non-religious. If you want only Christian values, you’re able to find a private school or homeschool. If you want a theocratic government, feel free to move to the Middle East.
The keyword here is “MY”, meaning your own children, and if they are in high school and you still cannot trust them to choose their own reading material, how do you trust them to make any other mature decisions in their lives when you’re not around? How do they operate a deadly weapon (aka, a vehicle and for some, a gun)? How do they work a summer or after school job? How do they go away to college and think with their own minds? I understand being protective of your own children, but the public school library is for ALL tax payers’ of a district’s children as well as high school students.
Are saying you support pervasively vulgar and educationally deficient material being in government school libraries?
And when I say “children”, I’m referring to younger than high school.