As the school year begins, calls for book bans begin to accelerate in Ohio

[Nevilledog]

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https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2022/08/09/as-the-school-year-begins-calls-for-book-bans-begin-to-accelerate-in-ohio/

With the culture war surrounding Critical Race Theory in full force in Ohio, schools are getting increased calls to ban literature.

The new school year is about to begin, and already the fight about the books students will read has begun. Banning books is not a new issue.

“Passages like that can mess with people’s heads and they’re not worth it,” Chuck Bartsche said about a line in “The Bluest Eye” a novel by Nobel prize recipient Toni Morrison. “The gain for that is so little.”

Bartsche refers to himself as a conservative organizer. He had an unsuccessful bid to join Rocky River City Schools’ Board of Education in 2021, running on the platform of banning both CRT and mask mandates.

Despite his campaign loss, he is still eager to remove what he believes is CRT from Rocky River.

Right now he is focused on stopping or limiting the teaching of “The Bluest Eye.”

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[madinmaryland]

1. Our state seems to want to win the dumbest state in the nation.

Morons. I’m in ohio and not Maryland anymore.

[Chipper Chat]

2. Someone should start a petition to ban The Bible

Give Em a taste of their own medicine

[Hekate]

5. That's a book that gets pretty explicit

[Timeflyer]

3. This is reThug strategy in Florida big time

ReThug candidates making noise and running for local school boards so they can control curriculum, sources of information, and demoralize professional educators who leave teaching. Local dems need to organize and oppose reThug groups like Moms for Liberty (that manipulative name--barf!) and get voters to support pro-democracy school board candidates.

[Hekate]

4. Here's an idea: hand out the old books to the kids and have them rip out the offending pages...

…right there in the classroom.

That will be a lesson they won’t soon forget. You betcha.

[ShazzieB]

6. How I feel when I read stuff like this...

[msongs]

7. nothing says freedom more than banning books. next burning books. next burning people nt