Why, you ask? Because of a new law that our legislature rammed through just a few weeks ago that requires the teachers to have all the books in their classrooms listed in a searchable database. They are doing this on their own time (unpaid, of course) so that their schools are not punished for non-compliance. Some of the teachers have hundreds of different books in their rooms. This has to be done by the end of the month.
So, instead of being able to devote their time fully to the children, teachers have to satisfy the radical conservative groups who have scared the more gullible right-wing parents and our legislature into thinking that they are providing obscene books to their students.
There should only be three people who help a child make a decision on what book to read. A librarian, who can direct the child to whatever subject they want to read about; a teacher, who knows what the child is interested in and can recommend books to the child; and finally the most important person, the parent. The parent should be involved in whatever choice the child makes about reading a book. Every parent should know what their child is reading. Why do these conservative groups want to take away a parent’s rights? Shouldn’t the parent be making these choices and not some group that wants to impose their own moral code?
Thomas Blanks