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Now, politics has gotten involved, which involves parents\u2019 rights associated with schools. A hot spot has been the populous Stated of Florida. Governor Ron DeSantis, after resisting COVID-19 restrictions in schools during the pandemic, has gotten his Parental Rights in Education law passed. It constrains teacher instruction on gender and sexuality. This has led some Florida school districts to ban books on LGBTQ. Violations of this law can be punishable up to five years in prison.<\/p>\n

But the state that has had the largest number of books banned in its school districts in the past two years is Texas, where I lived for forty years. Every Texas school book must be accounted for as to, for instance, if any \u201cpornographic\u201d content is age-appropriate. These book ban laws can be pretty subjective and easily invoked. Even a single parent can complain to a school district about a book and thereby get it removed. As a result, school libraries are being \u201cgutted,\u201d leaving students with far less access to books.<\/p>\n

Last year, the Utah state legislature passed a law banning \u201cSensitive Materials in Schools,\u201d which is defined as \u201cinstructional material that is pornographic or indecent.\u201d A Utah citizen in the Davis School District\u2013located between Salt Lake City and Ogden\u2013reacted to this law by complaining that the King James Version of the Bible is \u201cpornographic by our definition,\u201d meaning the definition of the new book banning law.<\/p>\n

A school committee then agreed that the Bible was not \u201cage-appropriate for elementary and middle-school students.\u201d Yet the committee explained that the Bible does not contain \u201csensitive material\u201d the law seeks to keep out of public schools. Thus, the Davis School District removed all Bibles from its libraries in eight elementary and middle-schools, but did not do so in its high schools. Another district citizen then appealed that decision. So, the Bible in a Utah school district still remains on trial.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"