'When the president, Oprah, and Julia Roberts are all talking about book bans, now is certainly the time for bureaucrats' favorite pastime: Doing something.' -madelineefry
In May, the Office for Civil Rights started byon a Georgia school district for having the nerve to pull sexually explicit materials from library shelves. Eight books had been removed from Forsyth County schools for being “obviously sexually explicit or pornographic,” according to the superintendent. The civil rights office argued this constituted a “hostile environment” and a potential violation of civil rights .
Now, the office is promising to expand its crusade. Threatening to pull funding from schools that cannot successfully participate in “negotiations” with the Education Department, Lhamon said, is a “terrific, very strong tool. “We haven’t had to use it in the recent past because we haven’t seen book bans for some decades, but it’s very much in conversation now,” she added.
Lhamon neglects to mention not only that book ban estimates are grossly overstated — the Heritage Foundation’s Jay Greene dug into PEN America’s data and that 74% of reportedly banned books were not banned at all — but also that they are largely driven by a proliferation of sexual material targeted at teenagers .
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