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is it not super dodgy for a state to decide what can & can't be read in schools, rather than the school's librarian..?
there are some books on that list that i don't think are suitable for under 18s, but surely at the state level, there are bigger things to worry about than kids reading age-inappropriate books
It's even worse than that, if I'm reading the article correctly:
It's not hard to get books banned in charter schools, since they're privately run and can be extremely biased. So they only need TWO districts run by bigots to get nearly anything banned. Utah has 41 districts in the state, so the law is that under 5% of public school superintendents decide what's acceptable for the entire state.
Wouldn't that also work the other way? Or is the other side the only one playing by the rules and doing what's right for the kids?
It should be trivial to get a few districts to ban the Bible. There's a ton of material that is objectively bad for kids.
I don't know what happened after this, but one district had at least a partial ban in place at one point.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bible-ban-utah-school-district-elementary-middle-complaint-sex-book/