The Education Department Is Calling Book Bans a ‘Hoax’!!!

Oh, my word!! Seriously? There's "a Department of Education announcement that called bans a “hoax”? 

Yesterday, I read an article published on the Associated Press website titled, Free speech organizations denounce Education Department’s calling book bans a ‘hoax’. In the Associated Press article, it states:

“The department is beginning the process of restoring the fundamental rights of parents to direct their children’s education,” the department’s acting assistant secretary for civil rights, Craig Trainor, said in a statement. The DOE’s announcement is headlined: “U.S. Department of Education Ends Biden’s Book Ban Hoax.”

Such language is “alarming and dismissive of the students, educators, librarians, and authors who have firsthand experiences of censorship happening within school libraries and classrooms,” said Kasey Meehan, who directs PEN America’s Freedom to Read program.

The library association called the department’s announcement part of a “cruel and headlong effort to terminate protections from discrimination for LGBTQIA+ students and students of color.”

What is this world coming to? Free speech and freedom to read what we want is at stake. I am a taxpayer. I want my public library to be stocked with books that include diverse voices and perspectives.

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