Again, only you're talking about a book. The teacher didn't push any book on anybody, she made a library available. But conservatives have made it known that they don't believe in the free exchange of ideas. And they go out of their way to hate and demonize those that do.
So having gone back through this part of the thread and followed the arguments and discussions I figured I'd weigh in on this.
Schools have limited budgets to buy books. At some point when book orders were being suggested by staff etc so therefore it would have had to be argued for and pushed for to be included. Maybe it got through unanimously, maybe it got through as part of a deal I dunno maybe this book got ordered in exchange for
Atlas Shrugged and and some copies of the bible also getting ordered.
Now reading the article that sparked this it's a K-12 school which is a term I'm not familiar with not being American so I looked it up and it's ages 4-18. The original article doesn't mention the age of class she taught only that students in her class turned up to find the red signs giving them access to the banned books.
So it leaves a bit of an issue here because her class could realistically have been anywhere from lets say age 6 to age 18 and be generous and not go with her having a Kindergarten class.
Does anyone here really support the idea of recommending a 6 year old to read
50 shades of Grey?
People might be more comfortable with lets say 16 upwards.
Maybe 13 - 14 for Lady Chatterley's lover or that level content, maybe.
There really is only so much free exchange of idea that should be happening with students who are minors and far less free exchange in some areas and the limits on this grow dramatically as the age of the pupils goes down.
The optics on this really don't benefit the "Liberal" side and as much as I'm for sex education etc etc but dear Cthulhu people there's no way in hell I'm going to bat for people directing potentially pre-teens to erotica books gay or otherwise worse still in an environment and set of optics where claims and accusations of grooming have been getting thrown around and people are trying to argue it's all made up and fake then there's potentially this shit going on? It's almost beyond belief how stupid it looks.
