It wasn’t a physical school library book that sent Betsy Harrington into a state of alarm about high school reading material. It was an app.Harrington’s son, a student at Hillsboro-Deering High School, had found a book on Sora, an app that gives.
It wasn’t a physical school library book that sent Betsy Harrington into a state of alarm about high school reading material. It was an app.Harrington’s son, a student at Hillsboro-Deering High School, had found a book on Sora, an app that gives.
It’s a dispute that is becoming more common: on one side, a set of parents who oppose certain content in school reading materials; on the other, educators and opposing parents who say those objections are attempts to censor marginalized authors and topics.
House lawmakers are weighing a bill to remove staff and teachers in K-12 schools from exemptions to state obscenity laws, potentially requiring school officials to remove books proactively or face misdemeanor charges.