The incident renewed the efforts of Waltham-based Parents’ Rights Coalition to rid the state's schools of books and lessons that advance the “homosexual agenda” in public schools. “By presenting this kind of issue at such a young age, they're trying to indoctrinate our children,” stated the parent. The book was used as part of a lesson about different types of weddings. (2006) second-grader protested that their son’s teacher read the fairy tale about gay marriage to the class without warning parents first. 55-56.īowden, Mark Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War Source: Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom, Mar.

A decision to review school policies and investigate less-restrictive means to control library books was approved by the school board. He said there might be more palatable alternatives, like creating a list of restricted books that parents have to approve before their children can check them out. The board reversed its decision at the encouragement of the board president, who said the board moved too fast and unleashed a possible court case it would never win. The parents said the 1994 runaway nonfiction best seller was too pornographic and at odds with student behavior promoted in the school handbook. Two school employees followed school policy to request removing the book after their son brought it home from an accelerated-reading program, in which students pick from a couple of hundred titles. Banned for just four days from the Beulah, N.Dak.

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