Spotsylvania County Public Schools Superintendent Mark Taylor ordered 14 titles be banned from school libraries in March. In total, 108 books were taken off the shelves.
As the wave of book bans reaches Virginia, public schools are being forced to consider the balance between students’ exploration and protection through literature.
Budget fights at Spotsylvania County Public Schools ended Monday night with the new fiscal year’s budget narrowly passing. While many positions were spared after heated debate, some still got the axe.
The American Civil Liberties Union, in an April 21 letter to the Spotsylvania County school board, said Superintendent Mark Taylor’s removal of the books is not only unconstitutional he’s not even interpreting state law correctly.
The ACLU wants a Virginia school board to override a superintendent’s decision to remove certain books from high school library shelves, suggesting it’s.