Central York, PA book ban: child's Rosa Parks book, Malala's autobiography, Sesame St on racism

[muriel_volestrangler]

Students fight back against a book ban that has a Pennsylvania community divided

York, Pennsylvania (CNN)Students in a southern Pennsylvania school district are battling the latest example of panic spreading over how history and race are taught in schools across the US.

"I don't think a moral compass will let you ban books about equality and loving each other," Central York High School senior Christina Ellis told CNN.
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On Monday, students, parents and other community members debated during a virtual school board meeting about the list of anti-racism books and resources that were banned from the curriculum by the Central York school board last year.

Last October, the all-White school board unanimously banned a list of educational resources that included a children's book about Rosa Parks, Malala Yousafzai's autobiography and CNN's Sesame Street town hall on racism.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/15/us/book-ban-controversy-pennsylvania/index.html

[AZSkiffyGeek]

1. Best thing my parents did was move away from York

Live got it right...

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Organized right wingers are pushing school boards all over the place to do similar censorship

They make a lot of noise, sometimes threats, and invade school board meetings until they get what they want. They should simply bury their heads in the sand and stay there awhile.

[cbabe]

3. Best way to get kids to read

a book is tell them not to.