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During the last year, Mary Ellen Cuzela concerned about students being indoctrinated about sex and critical race theory successfully petitioned her suburban Houston school district of about 83,000 to remove two books from their libraries: the novel Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison and the graphic novel Losing the Girl by MariNaomi.
Cuzela, a mother of three who works for the district as a substitute teacher, said she was encouraged by Republican Texas lawmakers focus on critical race theory, an academic framework for examining systemic racism which is not taught in any U.S. public school that she considers Marxist ideology and anti-American. She has a list of more than a dozen more books she wants removed from schools along Houstons rapidly growing and diversifying Energy Corridor, home to some of the worlds major oil and gas companies.
I dont want to ban books. I dont want to be a book burner. My goodness, no, said Cuzela, 49, whose children have attended public school for years in Katy. Im not into censoring. That is not what this is about. We filter students internet access. We have keywords, trigger words, that we know people shouldnt have access to as a minor. So why isnt that same process in the school libraries?
One of the books, Lawn Boy, refers to oral sex between boys, and the other, Losing the Girl, features LGBTQ characters.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-11-08/texas-schools-ordered-to-investigate-books
Skittles
(153,169 posts)you know, like in.....real life! And these people have the nerve to talk about CANCEL CULTURE? Sanctimonious ASSHOLES.
LuckyLib
(6,819 posts)from Amazon or their local bookstore. Nice work, grownups! Young folks are on to your bull in an instant!
Ligyron
(7,633 posts)KT2000
(20,584 posts)Such micro-managing of our schools will keep the kids from learning about the world outside of those often dysfunctional families they belong to. Future tRumpers.
Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)upon narrative of flag waving, American can do no wrong "history" is considered "indoctrination" by some.
Funny that they think facts about America and about the lives of people not white, not christian, not straight are indoctrination.
Even funnier is what they think isn't indoctrination.
And not funny "Haha" either.