Miami-Dade County school libraries had 49 copies of a book praising life in Cuba before the school board voted to get rid of them. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court ruling against the school board, so naturally the usual suspects are upset. I thought this was one of the right ways books could be removed from school libraries, but there’s a supreme court case from 1982 saying, according to the article, a school board does not have “the right to remove books from a school library if the board ‘disliked the ideas contained in it.'”
Really?
Can I give a school library a book opposing abortion, or is that different from a book praising communism?
That’s a good question. I’d like to know if the school board has voted out any other books without having to defend themselves in court. I get them impression that once a book is chosen, it may not be removed for any content-related reason by any person of authority.
How nice – chosen by whom?
Yeah. The Registered Book Chooser, I guess, Her Royal Highness of Library Acquisitions.
This seems rather strange, as I’ve heard of all kinds of cases of the ‘Left’ getting rid of books they don’t like.
– P.s. I encourage people to recommend books to libraries. (Most Christians, as far as I can tell, don’t take advantage of this opportunity. It’s my belief that librarians will neglect to buy ‘conservative’ or Christian books if no one requests them. Their easy excuse for the lopsided selection is simple; ‘no one wants anything else.’)