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Old 08-19-2022, 08:25 AM
RickeyM RickeyM is offline
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Originally Posted by finnbow View Post
Hundreds of dictionaries earmarked for donation from a Venice Rotary Club sit collecting dust, precluded from being given to Sarasota County students. Even dictionaries aren't safe from the Sarasota Schools book freeze.

https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/...s/10357859002/

One day before students returned to classrooms in North Texas, a school district ordered principals and librarians to remove books including the Bible and a graphic novel adaptation of Anne Frank’s “The Diary of a Young Girl” from libraries and classrooms.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/17/u...ved-bible.html

So, these wingnuts are banning dictionaries, the Bible, and The Diary of Anne Frank? Feckin' ridiculous.
They won't lift a finger to save kids from gun violence but books, there's the real danger
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