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Alberta's education minister says sexually explicit content must be gone from school library shelves as of Oct. 1, but says ...
Those are all examples of books Reina Takata says she can no longer find in her public high school library in Mississauga, Ont., which she visits on her lunch hour most days.
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Edmonton Journal on MSNOpinion: Alberta's school library book ban an effective distractionAlberta’s Education minister, Demetrios Nicolaides, has announced standards for determining what age-appropriate books will appear in school libraries. Students in any grade will not be able to see ...
Photo credit: WRDSB An Ontario school board is reviewing every book in its 121 school libraries to remove titles considered “harmful” to students or staff.
For example, PEN America listed the Black Lives Matter-inspired “The Hate U Give” as the fifth most banned book. We found it available in every single school library in question.
“School library has a display of banned and challenged books. Here’s a small sample,” they wrote along with some images of the notes displayed on the bookshelf.
A new Pennsylvania school board president was sworn into her position on Monday with her hand on a stack of controversial books, one of which included sexually explicit content.
PEN’s researchers noted that in terms of identity erasure, the numbers are even more stark within the different genres and formats of the banned books. For example, they found that 73% of banned ...
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