dawnnikol
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Post by dawnnikol on Apr 26, 2024 14:02:31 GMT
Starting a new thread about the books being banned and the reasons behind the bans. The original thread was here: Started by aj2hall aj2hall just over 2 years ago. If you're unsure where to start fighting this, Book Riot created this graphic:  |
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 26, 2024 16:46:20 GMT
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 26, 2024 17:02:55 GMT
Our public library board is appointed, not sure by whom though.
A quote from the AP article posted above.
And who is going to teach our children to live safely in today's world? Keep them safe from the, frequently christian Republican, perverts?
Also the lack of knowledge about our history and our government prevents children to progress safely into life...
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dawnnikol
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Post by dawnnikol on Apr 26, 2024 17:10:44 GMT
A Girl Scout in Hanover County created "Banned Book Nooks" which were free and helped to restore access to books that have been banned in their libraries in 2023. She received the "Gold Award" from the Girl Scouts and the Hanover Board of Supervisors chose to recognize all 4 Girl Scouts who won that award. The board then MODIFIED her self-submitted summary of her project to exclude language related to "book bans". The Girl Scout stood up in that board meeting and said: You bestowed upon me the greatest honor you could. Greater than that of any proclamation in your censorship of my Gold Award project," she said.Censor the Girl Scout.If you have Twitter access, it's here, too: To clear things up again - Google "Miller Test" before you start tossing around accusations of "pornography". |
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Post by Bridget in MD on Apr 26, 2024 17:47:18 GMT
A Girl Scout in Hanover County created "Banned Book Nooks" which were free and helped to restore access to books that have been banned in their libraries in 2023. She received the "Gold Award" from the Girl Scouts and the Hanover Board of Supervisors chose to recognize all 4 Girl Scouts who won that award. The board then MODIFIED her self-submitted summary of her project to exclude language related to "book bans". The Girl Scout stood up in that board meeting and said: You bestowed upon me the greatest honor you could. Greater than that of any proclamation in your censorship of my Gold Award project," she said.Censor the Girl Scout.If you have Twitter access, it's here, too: To clear things up again - Google "Miller Test" before you start tossing around accusations of "pornography".I wish the Scout had wiped her ass with thier proclamation. Fuck them for changing the summary of her project! This Girl Scout rolled her eyes while the summary was being read, bc she knew they had changed the wording of her summary of her project. She probably felt she deserved the honor but it's like taking a hug from the icky uncle... I wish she had interrupted or corrected the woman as she was reading to say what the project was about. And the guy who spoke AFTER public comments is a huge coward douche canoe. |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 26, 2024 18:32:37 GMT
There is an Amazon wish list page for Kate Lindley's banned books nooks.. Banned Book Wishlist It's time to stock the shelves! My Girl Scout Gold Award project, “Free to Read,” is establishing banned book nooks where students can borrow titles banned by the Hanover County School Board. I have secured two book nook locations, and hope to line up a third. With 91 books having been banned after the most recent wave of deselection, restoring high school student access to these texts is a top priority. Please help if you can, by donating new or used copies through the Amazon Wishlist linked below, or from a bookseller of your choosing. Please note the priority level: "highest" means we desperately need more copies of that title, while "low" means we have many copies on hand already. Thank you!" www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/N2DGIA2OFUGH?ref_=wl_share |
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Post by monklady123 on Apr 26, 2024 18:35:47 GMT
There is an Amazon wish list page for Kate Lindley's banned books nooks.. Banned Book Wishlist It's time to stock the shelves! My Girl Scout Gold Award project, “Free to Read,” is establishing banned book nooks where students can borrow titles banned by the Hanover County School Board. I have secured two book nook locations, and hope to line up a third. With 91 books having been banned after the most recent wave of deselection, restoring high school student access to these texts is a top priority. Please help if you can, by donating new or used copies through the Amazon Wishlist linked below, or from a bookseller of your choosing. Please note the priority level: "highest" means we desperately need more copies of that title, while "low" means we have many copies on hand already. Thank you!" www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/N2DGIA2OFUGH?ref_=wl_shareThe link just brings me back to this page.  |
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Post by Bridget in MD on Apr 26, 2024 18:49:50 GMT
There is an Amazon wish list page for Kate Lindley's banned books nooks.. Banned Book Wishlist It's time to stock the shelves! My Girl Scout Gold Award project, “Free to Read,” is establishing banned book nooks where students can borrow titles banned by the Hanover County School Board. I have secured two book nook locations, and hope to line up a third. With 91 books having been banned after the most recent wave of deselection, restoring high school student access to these texts is a top priority. Please help if you can, by donating new or used copies through the Amazon Wishlist linked below, or from a bookseller of your choosing. Please note the priority level: "highest" means we desperately need more copies of that title, while "low" means we have many copies on hand already. Thank you!" www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/N2DGIA2OFUGH?ref_=wl_shareThe link just brings me back to this page. I clicked on it 2x and the 2nd time it worked! |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 26, 2024 19:05:25 GMT
The link just brings me back to this page. I clicked on it 2x and the 2nd time it worked! hope it works now. I started at the bottom of the list.. |
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dawnnikol
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Post by dawnnikol on Apr 26, 2024 19:34:48 GMT
There is an Amazon wish list page for Kate Lindley's banned books nooks.. Banned Book Wishlist It's time to stock the shelves! My Girl Scout Gold Award project, “Free to Read,” is establishing banned book nooks where students can borrow titles banned by the Hanover County School Board. I have secured two book nook locations, and hope to line up a third. With 91 books having been banned after the most recent wave of deselection, restoring high school student access to these texts is a top priority. Please help if you can, by donating new or used copies through the Amazon Wishlist linked below, or from a bookseller of your choosing. Please note the priority level: "highest" means we desperately need more copies of that title, while "low" means we have many copies on hand already. Thank you!" www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/N2DGIA2OFUGH?ref_=wl_shareThe link just brings me back to this page. It brings me back here, too. I've found these two links in case it's a ProBoards thing: Here's her IG for her project: Free to Read which has links to her list, but I'll try to also include it: Here. |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 27, 2024 22:16:13 GMT
Kate has already sent a thank you note for a package delivered today that was ordered yesterday. The rest are supposed to be delivered tomorrow.
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Post by ntsf on Apr 27, 2024 22:41:16 GMT
just a bit of wording.. she did not "win" or "won" the Gold Award.. she earned it. it takes at least 80 hours of work and needs to be sustaining to qualify.. it is quite hard to earn.
She will go far in life..
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Post by smasonnc on Apr 28, 2024 2:36:53 GMT
I'm in Florida where our homophobic governor and Moms for Ignorance are pulling books off of shelves, I've been stocking our Woman's Club's Little Free Library with targeted and banned books. I haven't made a big deal about it for fear that the holy rollers and Klanned Karenhood will steal them so as to save our souls from eternal damnation or prevent children from being "groomed by the gays." Grace Linn is a past president of our club. She has a bit to say about things. |
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Post by myshelly on Apr 28, 2024 3:06:17 GMT
I spent most of the day today helping DH box up his classroom library and take it all to Half Price Books.
On National Librarians Day his school district told ALL of the librarians that their contracts will not be renewed for next school year. Librarians may reapply for their jobs, but there will no longer be a librarian on each campus. There will be one librarian per 5 campuses and each school will only have their library open one day a week. There will be no more library lessons. There will be no more paraprofessionals in the libraries.
Then each campus held a meeting to inform the teachers of the district’s plan to comply with Texas’s new law (The Restricting Explicit and Adult-Designated Educational Resources Act — the READER Act). Teachers would be required to review every single book in their classroom and publish on their class website a review of each book (similar to reviews you would read on Common Sense Media), then allow parents to say which books their kids can/cannot read, and monitor their classroom bookshelves in regard to each child. As an example, the district representative showed a picture book on manners that is in most of the kindergarten classrooms. One page shows two women holding hands and pushing a stroller in a crosswalk. That book would need to be flagged under the new rating system.
In response to this time consuming unpaid task, the teachers are removing their classroom libraries.
We don’t have anywhere to store more bookshelves at home, so off to HPB it went.
DH thinks silent reading time and “read a book when you finish early” won’t be able to happen in his classroom next year between no classroom library and almost no school library.
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dawnnikol
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Post by dawnnikol on Apr 28, 2024 12:17:50 GMT
I spent most of the day today helping DH box up his classroom library and take it all to Half Price Books. On National Librarians Day his school district told ALL of the librarians that their contracts will not be renewed for next school year. Librarians may reapply for their jobs, but there will no longer be a librarian on each campus. There will be one librarian per 5 campuses and each school will only have their library open one day a week. There will be no more library lessons. There will be no more paraprofessionals in the libraries. Then each campus held a meeting to inform the teachers of the district’s plan to comply with Texas’s new law (The Restricting Explicit and Adult-Designated Educational Resources Act — the READER Act). Teachers would be required to review every single book in their classroom and publish on their class website a review of each book (similar to reviews you would read on Common Sense Media), then allow parents to say which books their kids can/cannot read, and monitor their classroom bookshelves in regard to each child. As an example, the district representative showed a picture book on manners that is in most of the kindergarten classrooms. One page shows two women holding hands and pushing a stroller in a crosswalk. That book would need to be flagged under the new rating system. In response to this time consuming unpaid task, the teachers are removing their classroom libraries. We don’t have anywhere to store more bookshelves at home, so off to HPB it went. DH thinks silent reading time and “read a book when you finish early” won’t be able to happen in his classroom next year between no classroom library and almost no school library. I had not seen this news out of TX yet. Absolutely fucking despicable. |
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Post by artbabe on Apr 28, 2024 14:34:23 GMT
I just sent 3 books from her Amazon wish list.
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Post by Bridget in MD on Apr 28, 2024 15:33:21 GMT
I spent most of the day today helping DH box up his classroom library and take it all to Half Price Books. On National Librarians Day his school district told ALL of the librarians that their contracts will not be renewed for next school year. Librarians may reapply for their jobs, but there will no longer be a librarian on each campus. There will be one librarian per 5 campuses and each school will only have their library open one day a week. There will be no more library lessons. There will be no more paraprofessionals in the libraries. Then each campus held a meeting to inform the teachers of the district’s plan to comply with Texas’s new law (The Restricting Explicit and Adult-Designated Educational Resources Act — the READER Act). Teachers would be required to review every single book in their classroom and publish on their class website a review of each book (similar to reviews you would read on Common Sense Media), then allow parents to say which books their kids can/cannot read, and monitor their classroom bookshelves in regard to each child. As an example, the district representative showed a picture book on manners that is in most of the kindergarten classrooms. One page shows two women holding hands and pushing a stroller in a crosswalk. That book would need to be flagged under the new rating system. In response to this time consuming unpaid task, the teachers are removing their classroom libraries. We don’t have anywhere to store more bookshelves at home, so off to HPB it went. DH thinks silent reading time and “read a book when you finish early” won’t be able to happen in his classroom next year between no classroom library and almost no school library. That is so depressing. I can't imagine not learning how to use a library during elementary school much less middle and high school when they are trying to learn how to research. |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 28, 2024 16:13:57 GMT
Bridget in MDThe girls won't need to do research. Their role will be subservient, barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. Boys will be sent to instate colleges etc where they will continue onto their sheltered path. Gutter education only for those chosen. Ignorance is bliss! Think about how children are tested and chosen for their future paths at very early ages in Russia.
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dawnnikol
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dawnnikol
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Post by revirdsuba99 on May 20, 2024 19:08:44 GMT
I knew I saved this for a reason.. Weeks after winning a school board seat in her deeply red Texas county, Courtney Gore immersed herself in the district’s curriculum, spending her nights and weekends poring over hundreds of pages of lesson plans that she had fanned out on the coffee table in her living room and even across her bed. She was searching for evidence of the sweeping national movement she had warned on the campaign trail was indoctrinating schoolchildren. *** But after taking office and examining hundreds of pages of curriculum, Gore was shocked by what she found — and didn’t find. The pervasive indoctrination she had railed against simply did not exist. Children were not being sexualized, and she could find no examples of critical race theory, an advanced academic concept that examines systemic racism. She’d examined curriculum related to social-emotional learning, which has come under attack by Christian conservatives who say it encourages children to question gender roles and prioritizes feelings over biblical teachings. Instead, Gore found the materials taught children “how to be a good friend, a good human.”Gore rushed to share the news with the hard-liners who had encouraged her to run for the seat. She expected them to be as relieved and excited as she had been. But she said they were indifferent, even dismissive, because “it didn’t fit the narrative that they were trying to push.”So, in the spring of 2022, Gore went public with a series of Facebook posts. She told residents that her backers were using divisive rhetoric to manipulate the community’s emotions. They were interested not in improving public education but rather in sowing distrust, Gore said. “I’m over the political agenda, hypocrisy bs,” Gore wrote. “I took part in it myself. I refuse to participate in it any longer. It’s not serving our party. We have to do better.” www.rawstory.com/courtney-gore/ |
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Post by flanz on May 20, 2024 19:24:24 GMT
Wow! I just looked up her list and it only has one title, Infandous
by Elana K. Arnold (Paperback)(requesting two copies) and as well as a request for printer ink cartridges.
Is there a longer list somewhere or have her wishes been fulfilled?
I wonder if she's still stocking the book nooks???
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Post by casii on May 21, 2024 18:24:41 GMT
This is so depressing and worrisome. If I didn't have school librarians and access to a school library, I don't know where I'd be. We moved a lot, so libraries were often a place of sanctuary as well as learning and opening myself up to worlds beyond what was generally an insulated rural community. I have a lot of family in TX, some of whom are teachers. Thus far, they are still firmly on the Trump train. I can't imagine robbing children of literature and research skills being worth the trade off for their dictator in chief.
I can look out my front door or windows across a small city park and see our local library. I take the grandkids there for special events, signed the oldest 2 up for the summer reading program and DH & I are there constantly. We got seeds from their seed bank, have been to multiple speaker events, they have a farmers market and loads of STEM & gaming clubs.
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dawnnikol
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