NEW YORK — As cultural debates over race and LGBTQ+ issues rage on in school districts across the country, parents and students in North Texas are on the frontlines of a heated battle over books that has rocked a Tarrant County community.
In a 4-2 vote, with one member abstaining, the school board of the Keller Independent School District adopted new"content guidelines" last month that require books in school libraries and classrooms to be reviewed based on their content to determine whether they are appropriate for certain age groups. Books that violate the policy may be assessed through challenge committees and could be removed from circulation.
"Ultimately, a book-banning checklist is going to wreak havoc and create chaos in our school district, and it violates our children's constitutional rights," Hawes said. that he has received"many complaints" from parents in his district over"inappropriate material" in schools and policies like the one at Keller ISD are necessary to protect the children.
School board members who voted for the policy argued that those are"guidelines" to assist book challenge committees and are intended to protect children from inappropriate content. ABC News reached out to all seven trustees and Keller ISD superintendent Rick Westfall, but requests for comment were either declined or not returned.
The new Keller ISD policy comes after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott directed the Texas Education Agency in Nov. 2021 to investigate so-called"pornography" in public schools -- a move that critics argued targeted books about the LGBTQ+ community. Cameron Munn, a gay senior at Keller High School, spoke out against the policy in a passionate speech before the school board.
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