Re:Girls Who Code book series banned in some US classrooms
by welcome_dragon on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @10:43AM
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I regret that I have one upvote to give to this comment. That being said, Moms Against Liberty (deliberate typo) can suck my nuts regardless.
Re:Girls Who Code book series banned in some US classrooms
by poopnugget on Monday September 26, 2022 @04:24PM
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I agree with you 100%.
When a school decides to remove a book from a curriculum, that is not a ban, that is a prudential educational and administrative decision. Michael Crichton novels are not studied in class, but Michael Crichton is not banned by teachers or schools.
Most of today's "book bans" are simply pearl-clutching about prudential decisions by libraries or schools or others to avoid controversy and curate their own collections. Everybody makes decisions every day about what to display, what to retain, and what to remove from the shelves. That's not censorship or banning, that's just curation.