New rule. A parent may only propose removing a book from the school library only after reading it in its entirety and delivering a book report to the librarian. Until then no discussion shall be entered into.
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Sounds like a reasonable limitation. I second the motion.
aug 28, 2025, 7:13 pm • 2 0 • view
If it’s being removed from a middle or high school library, make them write an essay analyzing themes and shit.
aug 29, 2025, 1:32 am • 0 0 • view
New rule: we let the professional librarians and professional educators determine which books are needed in a school library.
aug 28, 2025, 11:01 pm • 4 0 • view
Our small town library policy also.
aug 29, 2025, 1:35 am • 0 0 • view
Honest question - Is there any limit as to what books can be put into a school library? And, if so, who decides?
aug 28, 2025, 9:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Nah, fuck that. They could do a dissertation on Pride Puppy and they would have no damn business proposing the removal of any book. How about for every book ban proposal they get 1 month in a reeducation camp.
aug 28, 2025, 7:59 pm • 3 0 • view
Reading & processing information are way above their pay grade.
aug 28, 2025, 7:31 pm • 2 0 • view
Cont. 2/2....but I believed very sensitively written about, & containing a really good message of overcoming difficult life troubles. I had no problem with the book after that. Then I became an MS ELA teacher & learned how well the books are vetted & selected under strict guidelines. 📖s teach life!
aug 28, 2025, 6:28 pm • 3 0 • view
1/2 It must be this way! I remember many years ago when my oldest was going into high school, several parents warned me about a book on the curriculum in 9th grade LA -- I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. So I read it. Yes, there are some pretty intense parts... Cont.2/2
aug 28, 2025, 6:23 pm • 4 0 • view
Not possible, "republicans" and "maga" cannot read.
aug 28, 2025, 6:39 pm • 2 0 • view
Yes.
aug 29, 2025, 1:44 am • 0 0 • view
Good idea.
aug 28, 2025, 11:58 pm • 0 0 • view
The morons would just get ChatGPT to do it for them.
aug 28, 2025, 7:34 pm • 3 0 • view
I LOVE this idea!!!
aug 29, 2025, 4:34 am • 0 0 • view
Love this
aug 28, 2025, 8:27 pm • 3 0 • view
Funny You think they can read
aug 28, 2025, 9:49 pm • 3 0 • view
What % would turn gay ?
aug 28, 2025, 9:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Parents encouraging conversations with their children about what they read would be SO MUCH better.
aug 29, 2025, 7:53 am • 0 0 • view
No. No parent should EVER be able to remove a book ever. Only way to try and improve the species is to help the younger generations try to improve.
aug 29, 2025, 7:52 am • 0 0 • view
If a person had to stand before a qualified board of decision-makers and give an *accurate* 100-word-or-so synopsis of a work of literature in their own words, without notes, in order to get a hearing on banning the book, the banned book list would drop by 99%.
aug 28, 2025, 9:07 pm • 11 0 • view
As long as they don`t use ChatGPT
aug 29, 2025, 4:44 am • 0 0 • view
A Jesus Mommy Blogger would immediately start selling book reports since her prior biz of creating fake vaccine cards is now irrelevant.
aug 28, 2025, 7:44 pm • 9 0 • view
Bravo! These decisions require critical thinking and real fact, not paranoid "otherism" and contempt prior to investigation.
aug 29, 2025, 4:26 pm • 2 0 • view
Book report written with a pen in front of the eyes of witnesses without any sort of access to AI or storage media.
aug 28, 2025, 6:44 pm • 3 0 • view
If only we made the rules..
aug 28, 2025, 5:59 pm • 2 0 • view
“I heard”, “someone told me”, “my pastor says” aren’t good enough.
aug 28, 2025, 7:18 pm • 3 0 • view
And every time they use a dogwhistle term as part of the report, it adds an additional 1,000 words to the required length. 😄
aug 28, 2025, 11:20 pm • 1 0 • view
And answer at least 10 questions to see if they actually HAVE read it! 😇
aug 28, 2025, 7:54 pm • 2 0 • view
a long overdue rule...
aug 29, 2025, 2:23 am • 0 0 • view
Excellent idea 🏆
aug 29, 2025, 1:59 am • 0 0 • view
That’s kind of what a lot of collection development policies are. However, local governments in many communities are overruling or rewriting libraries’ policies in public and school libraries alike.
aug 28, 2025, 10:48 pm • 3 0 • view
Yes. If you want to remove from my children’s library then you better be prepared to defend your position.
aug 29, 2025, 12:10 am • 0 0 • view
And even then…nah
aug 29, 2025, 8:29 pm • 0 0 • view
And even then the answer is ‘no’
aug 28, 2025, 7:01 pm • 2 0 • view
As a child I read the whole of the Old Testament, and my book report would make a strong case for banning it, or at least giving a strong parental advisory. Adultery, genocide, it does not make family-friendly reading.
aug 28, 2025, 6:05 pm • 165 4 • view
Not forgetting the rape, incest, and cannibalism.
aug 28, 2025, 11:21 pm • 4 0 • view
Haha. Same!
aug 28, 2025, 7:40 pm • 16 0 • view
If only it’d ended after Genesis. That bit is amazing and I don’t mean the band.
aug 29, 2025, 6:43 pm • 1 0 • view
Don't forget trading foreskins for a wife...it's full of fun little bits like that!
aug 28, 2025, 10:26 pm • 4 0 • view
I dont like reading the bible. Pain in the arse reading those small paragraphs and chapters. I prefer my fiction novels without all that shit. So yer ban the bible because its a pain in the arse and scattery!
aug 29, 2025, 12:10 am • 1 0 • view
The incest got me.
aug 29, 2025, 2:09 am • 1 0 • view
That why they had those little Sunday school cards with Jesus, angels, children & lambs (all snow white) to deflect from OT freaky drama & violence.
aug 28, 2025, 10:31 pm • 2 0 • view
It's relevance comes from addressing societal issues that haven't changed since the cultivation of seeds. My favorite is addressing charlatans that live off the sheep through preaching. Drive through the Old South and the highways are lined with churches with preachers hustling for tithes.
aug 29, 2025, 1:43 am • 3 0 • view
We've written better books before and since then. The bible has always been utter trash.
aug 29, 2025, 2:13 pm • 1 0 • view
That was ultimately your parents responsibility and has nothing to do with the context of the bible, nice try.
aug 28, 2025, 9:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Same. That, along with college, helped me deconstruct organized religion and ultimately walk away from it.
aug 29, 2025, 2:16 pm • 1 0 • view
I would propose a dividing of the Bible into E for everyone and 18+ for mature readers for both the OT and NT. Chunks of the OT are really insightful and good, I’m a big fan of Job and Ecclesiastes specifically, but parts of it, you simply need to have the historical context for, need to have a
aug 28, 2025, 11:07 pm • 2 0 • view
I agree about Job and Ecclesiastes (in the King James version) just for the language.
aug 29, 2025, 4:46 am • 1 0 • view
reader to guide you through. Like, how do you read Leviticus without someone explaining the historical context of the customary rules? How does it make even a LICK of sense?
aug 28, 2025, 11:10 pm • 4 0 • view
Spot on
aug 29, 2025, 3:47 am • 1 0 • view
That part
aug 29, 2025, 1:38 am • 0 0 • view
Additionally, the book reports must detail how the book will cause harm to the reader, after coming to the understanding that books don’t cause harm to readers.
aug 28, 2025, 6:25 pm • 51 2 • view
And must be at least five pages, single-space, both sides, font size 12, no bold or italics, Arial.
aug 28, 2025, 6:43 pm • 27 2 • view
Excellent! Attach a work cited page or bibliography to document any borrowed or quoted materials . At least two citations per page are required.
aug 28, 2025, 11:54 pm • 1 0 • view
No, handwritten. Penmanship matters! 😉
aug 28, 2025, 8:40 pm • 20 1 • view
I had considered that, but I am specifically thinking of that big, bubbly print people write in... It takes up a lot of space.
aug 28, 2025, 8:43 pm • 10 0 • view
Wordcount.
aug 28, 2025, 8:48 pm • 11 0 • view
Very good, then!
aug 28, 2025, 8:53 pm • 7 0 • view
Reading Sex and Violence from my school library caused me significant mental harm. Some book bans are valid. Most aren't. BUT THAT ONE. I would sooner let my son watch Redo Of Healer cause at least the rapists are receiving consequences. It's also a shit book in terms of writing too. 1/2
aug 29, 2025, 2:17 pm • 0 0 • view
The whole book is about teens having sex and the main character objectifying any woman he lays eyes on. It does male victims DIRTY and frames his groomer as his hella hot employer. The book tries to be deep and fails. I read it. Would gladly report on it. FULLY. For why it shouldn't be in a SCHOOL.
aug 29, 2025, 2:17 pm • 0 0 • view
The librarian will then question the parent on the content of the book to make sure they really read it. I can assure you that hardly any books will ever be banned
aug 29, 2025, 9:18 am • 1 0 • view
How about they can not remove a book from the library at all but they can give the school notice that they do not want the library to allow access to their child. Of course when you tell a child they can not do something - they most assuredly will.
aug 29, 2025, 12:50 am • 4 0 • view
Nah not even that. The answer is, the right of the child to learn and grow and develop and indulge their curiosity in an environment managed by professionals who are interested in that child's safety, is more important the the parent's sense of entitlement to control what their child perceives.
aug 29, 2025, 12:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Although I believe that there are so many stupid people out there I will continue to support parental rights.
aug 29, 2025, 4:28 pm • 1 0 • view
That doesn't make sense to conceive of as a right. Children do have a right to be safe from harm. That means parents don't have a right to control access to their child, as a parent might wish to restrict mandated reporters from accessing the child, and might be okay with abusers accessing the child
aug 29, 2025, 4:45 pm • 0 0 • view
if you remove parental rights than you are saying that children belong to the state and not parents, so basically they have no responsibilities. You must look at the long term issues. We know that authorities (teachers, etc.) harm children also so again perfection is not possible.
aug 29, 2025, 4:57 pm • 1 0 • view
No, that really doesn't follow. Parents have obligations. They have duties, a duty to care for their child, and so they have authority to make decisions on the child's behalf that are relevant to the duty of care. They don't have the right to determine what kind of person their child becomes.
aug 29, 2025, 6:33 pm • 0 0 • view
As children grow they develop their own personalities and desires so then they become responsible for their actions - nature has an effect but it is not 100% of what makes a person. Unless you raise the child in a closet they will be exposed to everything eventually. (4
aug 29, 2025, 7:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah, this concept is just bullshit. "Parental rights" as a concept is nonsense. It either covers things you already have a right to (what you have in your home) or shit nobody has a right to (denying a child and education or forcing them to remain in the closet). Children aren't property.
aug 30, 2025, 1:02 am • 0 0 • view
No they are the responsibility of the parents not you or the government other than for physical harm.
aug 30, 2025, 1:22 am • 0 0 • view
Are there rights you think parents should have that don't stem from the conception that children are property or an extension of the parent? Those might be worth discussing, if they don't already exist. But those aren't the ones that the "parental rights" crowd are squawking about.
aug 30, 2025, 1:10 am • 0 0 • view
I said previously children have their own personalities and will go with what they want other then you can try and restrict actual activity. (3
aug 30, 2025, 1:28 am • 0 0 • view
If I think something they read was detrimental then I can tell them what I think and I also have the right to set rules and not allow them to do certain things. But no parent can be with a child 14/7 nor should they be but it is your responsibility to pass on what your values are but as (2
aug 30, 2025, 1:27 am • 0 0 • view
Do you have any children? I do and I was very involved in their educations - would never have a book banned or stop my child from reading something but then I also read it and we discussed it and yes I have the right to express my opinion. (1
aug 30, 2025, 1:27 am • 0 0 • view
Last, it truly doesn't matter if everyone feels the same way or not. Not everyone has to agree on everything. But we do all have to behave in certain ways, and we can't expect society to cater to someone's prejudices or delusions merely because they are a parent. Being a parent means duties.
aug 30, 2025, 1:12 am • 0 0 • view
you can either have children collected and raised by the state or you can deal with a better but still imperfect system. You do not get to make those decisions for their child as long as you can not prove harm. (3
aug 29, 2025, 7:58 pm • 0 0 • view
you can not expect parents to be responsible for all financial care and all that involves but say they have nothing to say about what their child is exposed to. They are the responsibility of the parent and that covers everything - (2
aug 29, 2025, 7:57 pm • 0 0 • view
This in particular is nonsense. If someone chose to have a child, they chose to accept a duty of care over someone for many years. A child is a person, not an investment, not a thing you pay for in exchange for control. And you actually cannot possibly control what a child is exposed to.
aug 30, 2025, 1:16 am • 0 0 • view
A child is a great investment not for returns but to achieve a great human being. I think I have expressed that unless the child is closed up from life you can not stop exposure and the is the saving grace to stupid parents.
aug 30, 2025, 1:32 am • 0 0 • view
You can control what media is playing or present in your own home, but the minute they leave your home, they are out of the piece of the world you control. Rather than trying to exert control over others (including the child), your only option is to talk through and contextualize these things.
aug 30, 2025, 1:17 am • 1 0 • view
We will need to agree to disagree - I am for full exposure for children to life with guidance but they can make up their own minds. But I will not enforce my belief system on everyone else. Nor does our constitution allow for that.
aug 30, 2025, 1:37 am • 0 0 • view
Public schools are exposure and it is great. I would hope that all parents are involved but they are not but want control and as long as they are not physically harming the child you have no say otherwise you are supporting a child raised by the state. (2
aug 30, 2025, 1:36 am • 0 0 • view
Not sure you are reading or comprehending what I write. I agree with most of what you say but you can not interfere with a parents rights to raise a child as they deem appropriate not as you see it. (1
aug 30, 2025, 1:36 am • 0 0 • view
Determining what their child can read does not determine what kind of person a child becomes. Whether I agree with banning books or determining what your child is exposed to and many other things not pertinent to this discussion, (1
aug 29, 2025, 7:56 pm • 0 0 • view
We as a society also have a duty to care for children. We do not have a duty to humor the delusion and prejudice of every parent, nor the right to engage in censorship just to mollify some delusional parents group. Queer and trans kids have a right to exist in society and not be treated as a threat.
aug 29, 2025, 6:38 pm • 0 0 • view
I already stated that I would never support banning/censorship of books but allowing parents to make those decisions. I agree that it must be fought and not accepted and you can do that in schools but that has nothing to do with not allowing their child access to a book. (3
aug 29, 2025, 8:05 pm • 0 0 • view
That is why we are a society as people think differently and you are suggesting that we have automatons that all think alike. Our job is to try and teach open minds and critical thinking and fight racism and bigotry but you can not control what ignorant people tell their children. (2
aug 29, 2025, 8:05 pm • 0 0 • view
We as a society have a responsibility to teach standard required information such as evolution and sex/biology education for examples. But we do not have the authority to force children to read fiction books. (1
aug 29, 2025, 8:05 pm • 0 0 • view
This is the problem with the concept of parents rights (beyond the actual legal rights parents should and do have) that the right is trying to push. It treats parenthood as more of a means to achieve power over someone than the joyful and serious responsibility it is.
aug 29, 2025, 6:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Let parents stupidly spend their time not allowing their own child access to information or enjoyment. There is no perfect system. (2
aug 29, 2025, 8:09 pm • 1 0 • view
You are applying a very simplistic view and as long as we are human and dealing with other humans you can not fix all of it. Fight for schools to teach true history/science and facts to fight a lot of the prejudice/bigotry in the world. (1
aug 29, 2025, 8:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Children have legal protection if they are harmed by their parents by law, not right. Rights are things you can provide for yourself without any assistance from others. You can not make life perfect, (1
aug 29, 2025, 4:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Well that is true but parents do have authority over children and the right to control access to children (stupid or not) so it goes back to parents and like I said previously if you forbid the child odds are they will be reading it anyway. Then they can make up their own minds.
aug 29, 2025, 4:27 pm • 1 0 • view
I'd hate to be a school librarian who would have to keep track of every parents' weird book prejudices. How about they can give their own kids a list of all their rules and no-read books, etc, and if the kid doesn't follow their rules, then that's between the kid and parents.
aug 29, 2025, 1:25 am • 4 2 • view
Actually if it is so important to parents and it really is their responsibility then allow them to come in and type the names of the books they do not want their child to see in the computer.
aug 29, 2025, 2:38 am • 2 0 • view
That works also, I think my way is best but I really do not care - I do not believe in banning any books.
aug 29, 2025, 2:35 am • 0 0 • view
You know they have computers now and I assume children still check out books so you know who has them? So the computer would flag any books for a particular child - no real effort other than putting the info in the computer.
aug 29, 2025, 2:34 am • 0 0 • view
I agree
aug 29, 2025, 12:08 pm • 0 0 • view
And they actually have to reside in that district and have kids in school that would read those books
aug 29, 2025, 12:30 am • 1 0 • view
That should have been the rule all along, notwithstanding that parents should never be allowed to decide whether anyone but their own children should or should not read something.
aug 28, 2025, 8:47 pm • 3 0 • view
They can just ban their kid from entering.
aug 28, 2025, 8:16 pm • 2 0 • view
If only.
aug 29, 2025, 1:44 am • 0 0 • view
Ministers too!
aug 28, 2025, 9:51 pm • 3 0 • view
A better rule is to let parents who don’t trust their children opt out of letting their kids use the library. Parents who trust their children can continue to use the library normally
aug 29, 2025, 2:34 am • 0 0 • view
Book report with reasons and presentation required.
aug 29, 2025, 1:39 am • 1 0 • view
Or, and stay with me here, maybe they can just not let their kids read it (good luck with that!) and mind their own business when it comes to other people's kids.
aug 29, 2025, 3:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Seems like a good start, but the rest of the new rule is: And then DENY the ban.
aug 28, 2025, 9:56 pm • 5 0 • view
I've been saying this for a while, except having to report to a panel of young people who have read the book. "Yes, Mrs. Karen, we know what date rape is because it's happening to our friends. Why don't you want us to read about it and learn to deal with it?"
aug 29, 2025, 5:09 am • 0 0 • view
No, submit the report to a panel of English/ Language Arts teachers. Have them grade it and then question the writer about the text in question.
aug 28, 2025, 8:28 pm • 4 0 • view
That would imply the parents can read above a 5th grade level AND HAVE COMPREHENSIVE of the book. That i feel is beyond the ability of most of book banning cult members.
aug 29, 2025, 9:34 am • 1 0 • view
Ban books…but you can’t take my kid’s cell phone away during class. 🙄. What do they think their little “angels” are doing on those cell phones? When I taught, even some middle school kids had burner phones their parents knew nothing about.
aug 28, 2025, 8:49 pm • 3 0 • view
👏👏
aug 29, 2025, 4:03 am • 0 0 • view
The best rule ever!!
aug 28, 2025, 7:52 pm • 6 0 • view
And in addition to the book report they have to present and defend their findings to a committee of librarians, teachers administrators and a wide sample of parents.
aug 29, 2025, 12:46 am • 4 0 • view
They'll keep using Grok until it says something they think justifies their point.
aug 29, 2025, 1:11 am • 0 0 • view
And no AI usage
aug 28, 2025, 10:47 pm • 3 0 • view
The proper form.
aug 28, 2025, 7:53 pm • 2 0 • view
And the book report must be written in cursive, at least ten pages long, not composed by AI, and without spelling, grammatical or punctuation errors.
aug 28, 2025, 5:54 pm • 35 2 • view
But if it is submitted electronically, it can be checked for plagiarism and grammar.
aug 29, 2025, 5:15 am • 1 0 • view
aug 28, 2025, 6:45 pm • 16 0 • view
Not the Nazi way.
aug 29, 2025, 3:48 pm • 0 0 • view
What other whimsical rules exist in that child-like imagination?
aug 29, 2025, 12:21 am • 0 0 • view
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aug 29, 2025, 2:03 am • 0 0 • view
👍👏😊
aug 29, 2025, 12:11 am • 0 0 • view
But how does the librarian know they actually read it?
aug 28, 2025, 6:00 pm • 2 0 • view
They have to provide a thorough book report along with their complaint?
aug 28, 2025, 6:06 pm • 5 0 • view
Yup...
aug 28, 2025, 6:09 pm • 3 0 • view
Genius
aug 28, 2025, 10:35 pm • 3 0 • view
aug 29, 2025, 2:41 am • 5 0 • view
This.
aug 28, 2025, 9:13 pm • 1 0 • view
How do you make sure the parent understood the material and didn't just use spark notes or gpt? 🤣
aug 28, 2025, 10:19 pm • 3 0 • view
Also no arguments against said book can draw on religious materials (eg the Bible)
aug 28, 2025, 6:18 pm • 2 0 • view
I feel like parents can draw on works of historical fiction including Bible. But they would need to cite it as such, and include other more contemporary pieces. And include peer reviewed literature and historical research
aug 28, 2025, 6:27 pm • 2 0 • view
This makes sense. People were banning books on hearsay without reading them first.
aug 28, 2025, 11:59 pm • 0 0 • view
For every book proposed to be banned, parents must surrender one gun.
aug 28, 2025, 10:46 pm • 4 0 • view
Nice, I love simple practical ideas.
aug 28, 2025, 9:38 pm • 3 0 • view
💯 If you can't raise an intelligible argument #STFU 💙🗽
aug 28, 2025, 6:59 pm • 3 0 • view
With MLA cited sources and properly marked quotes
aug 28, 2025, 11:35 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 29, 2025, 1:26 am • 0 0 • view
Censorship: suppression of speech, public communication, or other information that is considered objectionable, harmful, or sensitive. It is a very subjective ideology to censor the written word. A Karen style of reaction, really.🤷♀️
aug 28, 2025, 7:23 pm • 4 0 • view
Unfortunately there are far too many parents who fear that if their child is exposed to a wide variety of ideas they will question them, contradict, or “leave” them. It is a show of parents trying to control their children by not letting them think for themselves. No wonder America has gotten dumber
aug 28, 2025, 7:22 pm • 5 0 • view
This is also why when defied, boomers in the US often resort to the, “yer too big fer yer britches,” speech that is immediately followed by an appeal to tradition a la, “my pappy taught me…”
aug 28, 2025, 8:15 pm • 2 0 • view
Yes. Traditions can be good but they can also prevent forward movement. I say make new traditions by taking the best of old and new.
aug 28, 2025, 8:21 pm • 4 0 • view
And then it should take a majority of all parents in the school.
aug 28, 2025, 8:34 pm • 1 0 • view
But what if they don’t like the cover art?
aug 28, 2025, 6:56 pm • 6 0 • view
😂
aug 29, 2025, 2:01 am • 1 0 • view
And shoebox diorama
aug 29, 2025, 3:56 am • 0 0 • view
Great idea, but most book banners are uneducated and have trouble reading.
aug 29, 2025, 12:15 am • 0 0 • view
The book report should be an argumentative essay on why it should be banned, five paragraphs include counter arguments and proper citations. Times New Roman 12 pt. All that which is expected of a high school student.
aug 28, 2025, 10:26 pm • 8 0 • view
Sex And Violence should be banned cause it glorifies rape, its about a guy objectifying women, and not kidding the whole book is teens having sex. Florida High School Library. Tohopekaliga. Will GLADLY cite every single inappropriate, sexist, and disgusting thing I recall. All as a former student.
aug 29, 2025, 2:26 pm • 1 0 • view
Love it!!!!
aug 28, 2025, 7:06 pm • 2 0 • view
Yes to book reports by MAGAts!
aug 28, 2025, 10:13 pm • 2 0 • view
Good one!
aug 28, 2025, 7:16 pm • 1 0 • view
You're assuming they can read.
aug 28, 2025, 11:11 pm • 1 0 • view
Sounds fair to me
aug 28, 2025, 5:47 pm • 9 0 • view
Seems fair.
aug 28, 2025, 8:32 pm • 4 0 • view
I LOVE THIS!!!
aug 28, 2025, 6:53 pm • 3 0 • view
the parent can remove the book from their own kid and leave mine the fuck alone unless they want me coming their house telling them what their kid can or can't do
aug 28, 2025, 7:36 pm • 103 4 • view
You will realize at some point you were part of the problem, not the solution. Hopefully.
aug 29, 2025, 5:14 pm • 0 0 • view
who
aug 29, 2025, 6:02 pm • 0 0 • view
when did people start thinking they had the right to tell other adults n their kids what they can do? who gave them this idea? do they actually think people who don't even know them give a fuck what they think? or want them telling them shit? who the fuck do they think they are? who appointed them?
aug 29, 2025, 12:20 pm • 1 1 • view
if more people had this attitude and willingness to do shit then magats wouldn't have been getting away with this kind of shit ever. it's what kept people like them in line for years until now there wasn't the shootings like today either when you were allowed to kick somebody's ass who deserved it
aug 29, 2025, 10:36 am • 5 1 • view
Tell that to the maga idiots who think they can make everyone do what they want.
aug 28, 2025, 11:43 pm • 0 0 • view
love to, bring em to me, i'm not the person they make do shit i yell at magats out in public weekly i ask them how the dictatorship is working out for them and thank them for fucking everything up for everyone, fuck them people they deserve nothing but torment
aug 28, 2025, 11:51 pm • 3 1 • view
Elegant words!👏
aug 29, 2025, 12:05 am • 2 0 • view
No Jim Bob. You can't touch daddy's micropenis again today. 😹
aug 28, 2025, 7:50 pm • 14 0 • view
💯💯💯
aug 28, 2025, 8:19 pm • 3 0 • view
You’re asking a lot from people who probably have read a book since high school if then.
aug 28, 2025, 11:39 pm • 0 0 • view
No one should ever be allowed to remove any book for any reason. That is until every copy of mien kampf is burned
aug 28, 2025, 7:19 pm • 1 0 • view
New rule. Upon receiving such a request any school shall give it due consideration,and in the fullness of time,when conditions allow and at the appropriate juncture,refer it to a full independent inquiry.
aug 28, 2025, 8:20 pm • 3 0 • view
Good idea! Make it at Least 2 full A4 pages of reasoning. “Don’t wait until freedom is gone to regret its loss. FREEDOM isn’t GOD-GIVEN; it is FOUGHT for by the PEOPLE”
aug 29, 2025, 6:24 am • 0 0 • view
Excellent idea!!!
aug 28, 2025, 6:21 pm • 2 0 • view
Awesome rule, since most MAGA morons can't read.
aug 28, 2025, 5:52 pm • 1 0 • view
The book report must be delivered in person. In appropriate dress. At drag queen [king] story hour.
aug 29, 2025, 11:05 pm • 0 0 • view
How bout we leave the poor school librarians alone and just talk to our kids about the books they want to read. How bout we not put teachers in the middle of an obvious political fight.
aug 28, 2025, 10:22 pm • 6 0 • view
Amen 🙌👏
aug 28, 2025, 6:32 pm • 5 0 • view
yes!
aug 29, 2025, 2:23 pm • 1 0 • view
Love this idea!
aug 29, 2025, 12:41 am • 1 0 • view
A five paragraph essay is required.
aug 28, 2025, 6:41 pm • 4 0 • view
🎯🎯🎯
aug 31, 2025, 5:01 am • 0 0 • view
I agree 100%
aug 29, 2025, 9:08 am • 0 0 • view
Kiss my ass is what I would tell them.
aug 29, 2025, 12:41 am • 0 0 • view
What a wonderful idea! What if guns could only be sold to people after they provide 20 hours community service caring for gun victims? Watching wounds cleaned, the struggle to breathe, the life shattered.
aug 29, 2025, 6:51 am • 0 0 • view
Make them start with the Bible. That book is awful.
aug 28, 2025, 10:02 pm • 2 0 • view
That is a magnificent idea. A chapter to chapter synopsis should be required
aug 28, 2025, 10:33 pm • 3 0 • view
And the book report must include textual evidence!
aug 28, 2025, 6:26 pm • 4 0 • view
aug 28, 2025, 6:02 pm • 2 0 • view
Sister Miriam DeSales will process all banned book reports so said report must be no less than 15 pages (single spaced) with index AND footnotes.
aug 28, 2025, 11:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes. You only get to be a reactive moron if you're an educated reactive moron. Uh, hold on...
aug 29, 2025, 5:00 am • 0 0 • view
A parent should be allowed to decide what books her child reads. She should not be allowed to decide that for everyone's child.
aug 28, 2025, 8:08 pm • 12 0 • view
Same applies to religious beliefs one exposed their child.
aug 29, 2025, 2:43 am • 3 0 • view
I don't want to listen to a book report. Certainly not from someone who wants to ban a book. I know this might sound good to you. But it sounds like a living hell to me.
aug 29, 2025, 12:29 am • 0 0 • view
What if they just parent their own kids and leave others alone?
aug 28, 2025, 6:01 pm • 40 0 • view
Seriously a single parent's complaint should not require any action. It should require parents of at least two students if not more. Not hard to write into law.
aug 29, 2025, 4:13 am • 4 0 • view
Of course, these days, parent will ask ChatGPT🤦♀️
aug 28, 2025, 10:24 pm • 1 0 • view
This is discrimination, clearly most of these book protesters can’t read.
aug 28, 2025, 8:54 pm • 3 0 • view
A book report they have actually written; not downloaded from a website nor using AI. Grammar and spelling also counts. Must follow basic format of beginning analysis, summary of the story, specific examples and logical conclusion. Minimum 3,000 words with citations (yes, I was a librarian).
aug 28, 2025, 6:22 pm • 2 0 • view
Addendum: if you dont have a child at the school in question, you can fuck right off.
aug 28, 2025, 10:41 pm • 2 0 • view
I'm surprised that schools don't just completely do away with their libraries.
aug 28, 2025, 8:46 pm • 3 0 • view
Read, those people cannot read...
aug 29, 2025, 12:05 am • 1 0 • view
That ought to do the trick! Make them READ! Hahahaha!
aug 28, 2025, 9:44 pm • 4 0 • view
👍
aug 28, 2025, 8:58 pm • 3 0 • view
aug 28, 2025, 10:00 pm • 1 0 • view
I like this. They would totally chat GPT it
aug 28, 2025, 6:52 pm • 3 0 • view
They shouldn’t remove books. Just don’t let your kid read it.
aug 28, 2025, 6:23 pm • 2 0 • view
Agreed
aug 28, 2025, 8:10 pm • 3 0 • view
I wish....
aug 29, 2025, 12:38 am • 0 0 • view
Best idea and most responsible. Let's have a petition for this! Come on Mr. Everitt your great rule!
aug 28, 2025, 8:22 pm • 3 0 • view
I LOVE this!
aug 28, 2025, 6:20 pm • 2 0 • view
💯
aug 28, 2025, 6:03 pm • 2 0 • view
Or just stop banning books. Really not hard.
aug 28, 2025, 11:48 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s really censorship. It’s saying what our kids can’t read because somehow they will be corrupted by risqué literature. It’s nonsense! I learned all about sex & swearing from friends, not books. Maybe those with religious sensibilities, should worry about their own morals and beliefs first!
aug 29, 2025, 1:11 am • 0 0 • view
BRILLIANT IDEA!
aug 28, 2025, 9:07 pm • 3 0 • view
Rather deliver the report to the public for discussion
aug 28, 2025, 11:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Are you crazy??? MAGAts don't read! But...that's a good rule.
aug 28, 2025, 11:33 pm • 4 0 • view
Book Banning. I worked in the K12 school system for years in several roles (library asst was one). What happened to parents deciding just for their own family what was appropriate? I am vehemently opposed to book banning. No one should decide what books s/b on shelves. NO ONE! Decide for yourself.
aug 29, 2025, 2:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes!!
aug 28, 2025, 11:59 pm • 0 0 • view
A college-level report.
aug 28, 2025, 7:10 pm • 3 0 • view
Im on to your game. You want me to read the gay books, so that I become gay and start infecting mine and other people's children with the gay. Nice try.
aug 28, 2025, 6:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Keep that Gate even harder. Might I suggest a meta-review of Kilgore Trout's character arc across Vonnegut's work?
aug 29, 2025, 2:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Interesting advice...
aug 29, 2025, 3:02 pm • 1 0 • view
RELEASE EPSTEIN EVIDENCE NOW. RELEASE EPSTEIN EVIDENCE NOW. RELEASE EPSTEIN EVIDENCE NOW. RELEASE EPSTEIN EVIDENCE NOW. RELEASE EPSTEIN EVIDENCE NOW. RELEASE EPSTEIN EVIDENCE NOW. RELEASE EPSTEIN EVIDENCE NOW. RELEASE EPSTEIN EVIDENCE NOW. RELEASE EPSTEIN NOW.
aug 28, 2025, 10:32 pm • 5 2 • view
Yes much better read than the bible!
aug 29, 2025, 12:11 am • 0 0 • view
Can we say the same about vaccine studies?
aug 29, 2025, 1:54 am • 0 0 • view
Considering that you can't get the typical MAGA supporter to watch an unedited Trump press conference, this would be a tall order. If they made the effort listen to Trump, he would promptly lose their support. If they read Bradbury, Orwell or Heinlein, they wouldn't be MAGA to begin with.
aug 29, 2025, 1:36 am • 1 0 • view
👏 👏 👏 👏
aug 29, 2025, 2:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Honestly, just let parents create “ban lists” for their own child. It wouldn’t be hard to design the card catalog system to restrict books based on student ID numbers. It isn’t ok to force EVERYONE to accept anyone’s personal opinions. If it was, cilantro would be freaking illegal! Blegh!
aug 29, 2025, 1:52 am • 1 1 • view
Elementary school librarian here, was informed yesterday that one of our new kindergarteners isn't allowed to take out any picture books with gay people. And as much as it sucks, I can do that. What I can't do is let that bigot decide for everyone else!
aug 29, 2025, 1:42 am • 2 0 • view
aug 29, 2025, 12:00 am • 2 0 • view
Perfect, we all know most of these book banning people can't read or write.
aug 28, 2025, 6:07 pm • 69 1 • view
Acutely literate drag queens.
aug 28, 2025, 9:46 pm • 0 0 • view
They'll just chatgpt it 😩
aug 28, 2025, 7:16 pm • 2 0 • view
Good rule. I'd add the corollary that if a librarian doesn't want kids to read (yes, many cases in the red states), they should first read the book suggested by the parents and defend their book report on it. To the parents, via collective zoom.
aug 28, 2025, 6:53 pm • 1 0 • view
And at least 3 adults from different families request it.
aug 28, 2025, 5:59 pm • 2 0 • view
Absolutely love this idea!
aug 29, 2025, 11:41 am • 1 0 • view
That’s a good idea
aug 28, 2025, 9:02 pm • 3 0 • view
And they should also give their stance on why said book is more dangerous than guns
aug 29, 2025, 3:23 am • 6 1 • view
Let's be honest, those parents who support book bans have never read a book, nor have they ever read one to their kids!
aug 29, 2025, 4:42 am • 0 0 • view
I like it!
aug 29, 2025, 11:35 am • 1 0 • view
How many of these book-banning parents can even read?
aug 28, 2025, 10:07 pm • 2 0 • view
To be fair thwy read enough to recognize when a book teaches kids boundaries and they want any of those banned.
aug 28, 2025, 10:12 pm • 2 0 • view
Fabulous idea.
aug 28, 2025, 8:39 pm • 2 0 • view
That is a damn good idea but unfortunately most of the people cannot read that want these books banned nor can they write a book report because they didn't go to school they smoked meth instead and a lot of them are inbred making them incapable to learn
aug 29, 2025, 5:20 am • 0 0 • view
Signed
aug 28, 2025, 6:55 pm • 4 0 • view
Hey what are you saying Steve
aug 29, 2025, 1:55 am • 0 0 • view
And the report has to receive a high-passing grade (B or better) that includes penmanship.
aug 28, 2025, 8:40 pm • 6 0 • view
Good Lord.
aug 28, 2025, 6:27 pm • 2 0 • view
The maga cult will propose seeing the movie will be sufficient.
aug 28, 2025, 7:12 pm • 2 0 • view
For real?
aug 29, 2025, 12:41 am • 0 0 • view
Brilliant!
aug 28, 2025, 8:03 pm • 3 0 • view
And NO AI used, either
aug 28, 2025, 9:50 pm • 1 0 • view
I’ll go with that.
aug 29, 2025, 12:42 am • 0 0 • view
500 words!
aug 28, 2025, 6:30 pm • 1 0 • view
I wish that was true everywhere.
aug 28, 2025, 6:37 pm • 2 0 • view
Part B: The parent must then enter into a discussion on local TV with reading teachers and the librarian to discuss the pros and cons of the book. Part C: post-debate, it shall be noted the parent’s child may not sign out the book. Part D: Other families will still have access to the book.
aug 28, 2025, 6:28 pm • 29 1 • view
And they should also talk with at least 5 different licensed child therapy experts to see if reading that material will actually have an affect on children and what that might be
aug 28, 2025, 7:15 pm • 10 1 • view
Look, most of the young genx/older millennials read fucking flowers in the attic, or Forever by Judy Blume, and/or were big Stephen King fans by late elementary school. 1/2
aug 28, 2025, 10:35 pm • 10 1 • view
Or death of a salesman or flowers for Algernon. Did you actually read flowers in the attic for school? Cuz dang. That said, I don't believe in censoring or banning books. I think people are idiots if they think reading a book will change their kids into entirely other people.
aug 28, 2025, 10:39 pm • 10 1 • view
I know I read flowers in the attic about 4th-5th grade? I don't think it was for school but it may have been? This was in the late 80s, so the details are fuzzy😅 But I was a huge reader at a very young age. And my parents never censored reading. I never have either.
aug 28, 2025, 10:49 pm • 7 0 • view
My kiddos did flowers for Algernon. My 16 yr old loved that one a couple years back. They did it for school. Same with The Hate U Give. 1984. Animal Farm. The Giver. Hunger Games. And more.
aug 28, 2025, 10:49 pm • 9 0 • view
I love that their HS has been doing so many books that were on banned and challenged lists the past couple years.
aug 28, 2025, 10:49 pm • 8 0 • view
I love when schools do that. I wish more schools did that. I think it's important to know about the books under attack. Hopefully the first book of flowers in the attic was before the brother started csa-ing his sister 😱 I would save that for a little older age.
aug 28, 2025, 10:53 pm • 8 0 • view
I know I read that before 6th grade, probably 4th or 5th. I was already into Stephen King at that point as well. Moved on to Anne Rice in 6th/7th. The incest relationship starts in Flowers.
aug 29, 2025, 12:00 am • 5 0 • view
I remember knowing there were other Dollanganger books but i only read flowers in the attic and petals on the wind. Which I believe the brother and sister ended up back together (after the sister was in some other relationships)raising her kids by the end.
aug 29, 2025, 12:00 am • 2 0 • view
I can say nobody read thwt for school. I remember middle school a few of us just had the books and just passed them around. My parenst let me read pretty much anything with one exception.
aug 29, 2025, 1:29 am • 1 0 • view
2/2 Pretty sure the kids today will be fine reading about penguins with two dads, or about growing up during the civil rights movement.
aug 28, 2025, 10:35 pm • 3 0 • view
Yes, 100% I read them all. My parents had no idea what I was reading in the 80’s . I would just go to the library and take out books.
aug 29, 2025, 9:12 am • 1 0 • view
Occasionally my dad would comment, “that one is pretty violent/racy/bigoted/political/whatever” and the follow up would be “You’re not obligated to finish it.” But we always had books in the house and an expectation that one hour would be spent (minimum) reading. The only ban was on “Mein Kampf.”
aug 31, 2025, 12:34 am • 2 0 • view
I can't remember anything being off limits. If there was I never tried to bring anything home that fit that bill. But I was big into King. Rice. Tolkien. Fantasy in general. I didn't read a lot of stuff that was meant for my age 😅
aug 31, 2025, 12:53 am • 1 0 • view
Interesting, I have a copy Mein Kampf and I have read it. Too bad they didn't read it way back
aug 31, 2025, 2:01 am • 0 0 • view
Having fought against Hitler and having lost so many of his friends in that war, he simply could not tolerate having a book written by the architect of all that destruction in his home. I believe he would feel the same about “the art of the deal.”
aug 31, 2025, 11:19 am • 1 0 • view
I got that too and I've read it...I wish more people would read and get a damn library card.
aug 31, 2025, 11:50 am • 1 0 • view
Some night when you’re out in a group, ask what was the last book you read? I was AMAZED how many people couldn’t remember, it had been so long. We should take a lesson on that from the Scandinavians!!
aug 31, 2025, 9:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Steve do you have children?
aug 28, 2025, 6:43 pm • 3 0 • view
Which books are they proposing to remove?
aug 28, 2025, 6:43 pm • 3 0 • view
New rule. Books approved by librarians stay in the library. A parent is free to opt out ONLY THEIR OWN CHILDREN- not other people’s children.
aug 29, 2025, 1:19 am • 4 1 • view
New rule - people who support the Second Amendment have to go door to door informing their neighbors that they support: genocide, uxoricide, pedicide … the common homicide and even suicide.
aug 29, 2025, 8:44 am • 0 0 • view
Whole, complete sentences. With correct spelling.
aug 29, 2025, 4:05 am • 0 0 • view
I agree. But then it must be a panel of educators that they have to justify it too. cbwrong.blogspot.com/2025/08/law-...
aug 28, 2025, 7:16 pm • 4 0 • view
I can’t swear to the details, but my state (CT) enacted a law with these kinds of requirements before a book can be banned.
aug 28, 2025, 9:17 pm • 4 0 • view
I agree.
aug 29, 2025, 2:21 am • 1 0 • view
And if they're caught cheating, plagiarizing, or using AI, they can never submit another complaint again.
aug 29, 2025, 4:32 pm • 5 0 • view
Yup, will need rules for the main rule for sure...
aug 29, 2025, 4:35 pm • 1 0 • view
Dang GOP’s gonna have to learn to read!
aug 29, 2025, 12:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Compiled and published for future ridicule.
aug 28, 2025, 6:24 pm • 2 0 • view
I’m guessing this would put a halt to book bans. Reading is hard.
aug 28, 2025, 6:41 pm • 2 0 • view
I would love for them to have to write a book report about Marlon Bundo (the book featured on Last week tonight)
aug 28, 2025, 9:48 pm • 1 0 • view
A lot them can't read.
aug 28, 2025, 8:05 pm • 3 0 • view
READ THE FIRST CHAPTER OUT LOUD AND THEN THE REST OF WHAT YOU'VE SAID!
aug 28, 2025, 6:20 pm • 2 0 • view
I’ve also thought this is the way.
aug 28, 2025, 8:25 pm • 3 0 • view
Support this idea 100%!
aug 28, 2025, 10:23 pm • 3 0 • view
Capital idea!
aug 29, 2025, 6:50 pm • 0 0 • view
They will use blinklist
aug 29, 2025, 6:21 am • 0 0 • view
ORAL report, live, to the board. Note-cards only.
aug 28, 2025, 6:46 pm • 4 0 • view
We tried this. There’s a database floating around out there that allows parents to cheat the process.
aug 28, 2025, 8:07 pm • 6 0 • view
Really?
aug 28, 2025, 8:16 pm • 4 0 • view
Yes. This has been the protocol for librarians dealing with book challenges since I joined the profession in the 1980s. The Mom’s for liberty was passing around a spreadsheet/database and title by title. It gave you this page references and why there are objectionable.
aug 28, 2025, 8:17 pm • 8 0 • view
That’s when you viva them to get their analysis. 😂
aug 29, 2025, 9:24 am • 0 0 • view
You know some of these folks are filing hundreds of these at a time. Funny, we still need to do our real jobs.
aug 30, 2025, 12:16 pm • 0 0 • view
So what you’re saying is the waiting list will be a good few years at least.
aug 30, 2025, 12:55 pm • 0 0 • view
But many states are making it that the book must be removed until there is a review.
aug 30, 2025, 8:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Absolutely ludicrous
aug 30, 2025, 9:49 pm • 0 0 • view
I didn't know that. Disgusting.😠
aug 28, 2025, 8:51 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes, that was true in the three districts in which I worked in libraries.
aug 28, 2025, 9:51 pm • 4 0 • view