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Declining to buy and stock a book in a school library is not a ban at all. The book can still be printed, bought, and read. It can be brought into that same sc
by frumplestlatz 2mo ago
Declining to buy and stock a book in a school library is not a ban at all.
The book can still be printed, bought, and read. It can be brought into that same school, and read there. It’s not banned.
- amanaplanacanal 2mo agoIf the school declines to put a book in the library, that's not a ban. If people outside the school with power over the school demand that books be removed, that's a ban. The groups demanding books be removed are often not even parents of children in the school. It external parties driving this stuff.
- frumplestlatz 2mo agoRemoving a book from the library is not a ban any more than a publisher rejecting a manuscript is a ban. Declining to provide a book is not the same as prohibiting the possession, use, or distribution of a book. As for “external parties”, schools in the US are public institutions.
- amanaplanacanal 2mo agoIf rather have folks that are trained in childhood education doing that job than randos.