These are the two books being challenged:
, “Issues of race and identity are among the most important issues of the day. Our libraries are safe places for students to ask and find answers to their questions from accurate, authentic and authoritative sources.” The American Library Association and nine other professional library associationsIn recent months, a few organizations have advanced the proposition that the voices of the marginalized have no place on library shelves.
School libraries have limited space, and librarians have to make hard choices about what makes it onto shelves. Most districts have a process for challenging the inclusion of books, and that is a necessary option; some books are certainly too graphic for some students. But finding that delicate balance is not aided by threats to jail teachers; instead, these kinds of threats make the currently strained atmosphere around schools more toxic.
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