- two members of the virginia school board asked to burn the books that were deemed worthy of removal.
- the spotylvania county school board ordered staff to begin removing the books” sexually explicit texts” from library shelves.
- The Republican Party has been pushing that students not be taught about race and sexuality.
amid national pressure from the republican party against teaching about race and sexuality in schools, two members of the spotylvania county school board in virginia advocated burning certain books, according to the newspaper free lance-star based in fredericksburg.
This came as the school board ordered staff to begin removing “sexually explicit” books from library shelves, after voting 6-0 in favor of removal, Lance-Star reported. The board has plans to review how certain books or materials are defined as “objectionable,” the newspaper said, opening the door for other content to be removed.
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Rabih Abuismail, representative from courtland, and kirk twigg, representative from livingston, advocated burning the books that have been removed.
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“I think we should throw those books into the fire,” Abuismail said. Meanwhile, twigg said he wanted to “see the books before we burn them so we can identify within our community that we’re eradicating these bad things.”
Book burnings have a dark history linked to censorship and repressive regimes, and are often associated with Nazi Germany. The infamous Nazi book burnings of 1933 targeted thousands of books deemed “un-German,” including the works of Jewish authors such as Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud, as well as banned American writers such as Ernest Hemingway.
The directive to remove “sexually explicit” books was apparently prompted by a school board meeting on Monday during which parents raised concerns about the literature students can access through the app. riverbend high school digital library.
One parent was apparently alarmed by the availability of “lgbtqia” fiction, the spear star said, and found a book called “33 snowfish” by adam rapp especially troubling. The American Library Association named the book the best book for young adults in 2004. According to a Publishers Weekly review, the book is “a dark story about three fugitives who understand hate and violence better than love.”
As Republicans vie to win back the support of post-Trump suburban voters, Republican leaders and politicians across the country have increasingly viewed schools as a primary battleground for the many culture wars raging. freeing. the Republican party has focused on the issue of critical race theory, in particular, in this regard.
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Critical Race Theory examines how the history of racism in the United States continues to impact the country today. it’s a college-level theory that isn’t usually explicitly taught in public schools, but Republicans have misleadingly suggested that kids are being indoctrinated with it.
Recent polls show that Republicans overwhelmingly oppose teaching students critical race theory, and as many as four in 10 Republican voters oppose educating public school students about the history of racism in the states generally united.
Virginia’s governor-elect, glenn youngkin, during his recent campaign for governor promised to ban critical race theory from the state’s schools on his first day in office. several states already have similar laws.
last month, youngkin ran a campaign ad featuring a local mother, laura murphy, who fought to have nobel prize-winning author toni morrison’s “beloved” removed from the advanced english curriculum of his son in 2013 (his son was in the last year of the time). Murphy called the book, which was about slavery in the United States and won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, “some of the most explicit material you can imagine.”
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