Florida County School District Removes 673 Books

DeathSantis keeps claiming that no books are being banned in Florida, that it is a hoax spread by groomers and democrats.  Which to him and his ilk are the same thing.  But he also claims the don’t say gay laws don’t target the LGBTQIA, but the way the laws are written they do have the effect of wiping out any representation of the LGBTQIA or the symbols of those groups from schools.  Even anti-bullying programs had to be stopped because the way the laws are being interpreted they can not tell cis kids not to target or bully LGBTQIA kids.  The real object is to drive any kid who is not cis or straight into the closet, into hiding, and instead of teaching respect, tolerance, and acceptance it teaches hate and bigotry.   Hugs.   Scottie

A quote from the linked article. 

“It’s creating this culture of fear within our media specialists and even teachers who just want to have a library in their classrooms, so kids have access,” said Castor Dentel, a former OCPS elementary school teacher.

Parents, she said, can restrict what their own children read, making it hard to justify pulling so many books from classrooms. “They’re in a pile of we’ll-get-to-it-later and in the meantime, no one can read those books.”

The harm of so much censorship far outweighs the benefits of finding “a book or two that is offensive,” Castor Dentel added. “Look at all the chaos that has been created. It’s not worth it.”

December 21, 2023

The Orlando Sentinel reports:

A total of 673 books, from classics to best-sellers, have been removed from Orange County classrooms this year for fear they violate new state rules that ban making “sexual conduct” available to public school students.

The list also includes popular novels by Stephen King, Sue Monk Kidd and Jodi Picoult, classics like “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,” “Jude the Obscure,” and “Madame Bovary,” and award-winning books like “A Thousand Acres,” “Beloved,” and “Love in the Time of Cholera.”

The rejected books include ones teachers say were once regularly taught in high school classes, such as “The Color Purple,” “Catch-22,” and “Brave New World.

Read the full article.

Orange schools reject 673 books from classroom libraries for fear they violate new Fl law. The rejected books include "Paradise Lost," "East of Eden," "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" and "Madame Bovary." Story and list (first obtained by @FLFreedomRead): https://t.co/xNWZldrgeS

— Leslie Postal (@lesliepostal) December 20, 2023

To fact-check Ron DeSantis’ claim that book bans in Florida are a “false narrative,” we started with the Florida Dept. of Education’s list of currently banned books https://t.co/rzGRjGtmRf

— PEN America (@PENamerica) December 3, 2023

 

TrollopeReader19 hours ago

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Banning books is something only fascist regimes typically do.

BeccaM  BeccaM18 hours ago

Yet as bad as these bans are, the thing that truly does piss me off the most about what Governor Puddingmitts and his fascist Rethugs are doing is they then LIE about it and insist they aren’t banning any books at all, not a one.

Motherfuckers.

Ninja0980  BeccaM18 hours ago

What ticks me off is the Cuban Republicans and others who scream about stuff like are OK if it’s their side doing it.

Ščŏŧŧ Ċ – 🇺🇦 🕊  Ninja0980 18 hours ago

They’re Republicans. Nothing is a problem until it’s a problem for them.

Franciscan  BeccaM16 hours ago

“It’s not censorship, if we do it. It’s restoring ‘parents’ rights’ to approve the curriculum.” That would be certain right-wing parents’ rights, and no one else’s.

Jim  BeccaM6 hours ago

Not forgetting that Red States are ONLY allowed to watch Fox *news* and nothing else .

Todd20036 19 hours ago

To give you an idea. “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” was mentioned in an old Bugs Bunny cartoon

So much for being of a sexual nature

But we all know that

Nic Peterson  Todd2003618 hours ago

Yeah, well that rabbit performed in drag! So there !

Nico El Azul Gato Proud & Blue  Nic Peterson 18 hours ago

As well as Elmer Fudd.

 

Ščŏŧŧ Ċ – 🇺🇦 🕊  Nico El Azul Gato Proud & Blue 18 hours ago

As I recall, there was also some kinky interspecies action.

 

Flora DeMann  Nico El Azul Gato Proud & Blue 18 hours ago edited

Fudd looks kinda like Vivian Vance, like in that wonderful story from Tim Gunn’s childhood about meeting Miss Vance in J Edgar Hoover’s office, except that J Edgar wasn’t there too.

John_Manyjars  Nico El Azul Gato Proud & Blue 17 hours ago

Yosemite Sam was in a dress at least once

Todd20036  John_Manyjars 17 hours ago

And Daffy

Anastasia Beaverhousen  Todd2003618 hours ago

Too much sex, not enough trees?

Sister_Bertrille  Anastasia Beaverhousen 17 hours ago

A tree can’t grow in Brooklyn unless its mommy and daddy had sex. Treesex = bad!

BeccaM18 hours ago

Paradise Lost, a 17th Century epic poem by John Milton which has been banned along with dozens of other absolutely classic works of literature, has NO sexual content, gay or otherwise.

It is being removed solely because radical fundamentalist Evangelicals object to its subject matter, namely the depiction of a former high angel who becomes jealous of Yahweh’s new favorite hominid toys and leads a revolt. As a consequence, Lucifer and his allies are cast down to Hell. That’s it. That’s the story.

But fundies hate it because Lucifer isn’t portrayed entirely as an unsympathetic character and because the story it tells doesn’t comport with their biblical dogma.

Nico El Azul Gato Proud & Blue  BeccaM 18 hours ago

I’ve was suspicious that the buybull only tells one side of the story about Lucifer’s fall and his mission against humanity. Shouldn’t we hear from the other side too? I just love mythology.

BeccaM  Nico El Azul Gato Proud & Blue 18 hours ago

The real message in Milton’s poem is a common but very true theme: “No one believes they are the villain in their own story.”

Essentially, what he was trying to do was to create a framework, a rationale to explain how and why a figure like Satan could come to be. In the end, the conclusion really was that the former angel Lucifer essentially got what he deserved.

But like I said, this whole story gets in the way of radical fundamentalist dogma, which when you think about it is at the core of all these book bans.

Paddycakes2001  BeccaM18 hours ago

But wait, according to the Book of Job, Satan is god’s gambling buddy.