Wait a second. Is book banning coming to Escambia County? NorthEscambia.com took a closer look.
Why it matters? The Florida Legislature passed several laws this year that give parents more tools to remove books they question. In Escambia County, it’s Vicki Baggett, the Language Arts Department chair at Northview High School, and Kevin Adams, the Escambia County School Board chairman, that are calling for a list of books to be removed until they can be reviewed.
Baggett has taught for over 30 years and compiled a list of over 115 books that she says are inappropriate in schools, mostly due to sexual language and graphic drawings that she believes actually violate Florida’s obscenity laws. Adams has called for the removal of the books until they can go before a review committee.
Neither is asking that the books be banned unless they violate state or federal obscenity laws. They do, however, want parental permission for students to read any of the books that survive the committee review.
To Dig Deeper: check out Here Are The Library Books That Teacher, School Board Member Want Reviewed
This is one way to get those kids to the library to check out a book. I’ll never forget finding the copy of The Sensuous Woman and also a Hustler magazine when I was about 12. Real page turners. I also read books about the occult from the school library in 8th grade. I survived.
Fantastic! Yet another thing to drive away businesses from our area and keep the military from bringing their families here.
And yet *none* of the local luminaries who purport to be such staunch proponents of improving Escambia County’s economy have anything public to say about this. Everybody just sits back and cowers while the cretin mentality rules the day, with school board members actively cultivating their relationship with a base that is more and more reactionary and backward. Anything to stay in that seat, right?
I cannot believe that we relocated to an area where school board members are flirting with book burning. Queue the people dragging their children to the podium to tell the school system to get out of their pants thumping their pitchforks and screeding for people who care about literacy and education to get back where they belong.
If the leadership of this community doesn’t wake up and stop cow towing to this mentality, they are going to let this area get dragged back into the new feudalism that DeSantis is so successful at cultivating with his culture wars. Thank God we don’t have children and grandchildren down here. Thank God my niece and nephew’s intellectual and psychological development is far away from what this craven school board is caving to. I’m sure the captive audience service industry down here loves it, though. Keep em undereducated and hemmed in. More likely to clean toilets for cheap that way.
Book banning/////what next BOOK BURNING????? There are NO federal laws banning books, only Florida and few other southern states that have a majority population of limited education that want to prevent the students and other enlighten individuals from being able to read and research about past racial discrimination , sex education, transgender type people and how said individuals were legally punish by elected officials. I am sure families whom might be thinking about moving to this area, after finding out that the wing nuts are attempting to take over public education and are trying to destroyed our public Libraries will reconsider moving south….