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Florida Freedom to Read Project
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Florida Freedom to Read Project
@FLFreedomRead
FL public school parents who believe school libraries & curriculum should be a place for all children to access information & ideas #FReadom #LetFloridaRead
- Yesterday we logged almost 200 challenges- about 150 of those resulted in immediate removals. This is a picture of all the books removed from one HS library, in one day, in one District, due to the objections of one man. This is not freedom. #FreeTheBooks
- What a carefully worded statement. The books are restricted from lower grades within the school. They are now stored on shelves available to grades 6-8 after a parent objection that demanded full removal. A compromise that sacrifices some student access is still censorship.In order to ensure accurate information, @MDCPS is compelled to clarify that the book titled, “The Hill We Climb” by @TheAmandaGorman was never banned or removed from one of our schools. The book is available in the media center as part of the middle grades collection.
- Confessions from a FL Teacher: After learning an excerpt from THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK was challenged in her school’s curriculum for being age inappropriate, this teacher shared a common note of exhaustion. The attacks on their personal library collections are unnecessary….
- “I am shocked to discover that America has such an attachment to ignorance. I thought we were better than this…Well, we’re not. So we have to deal with it. We have to fight back. And then we have to continue to tell the truth.” @levarburton
- Thank you to those who share our outrage over so many important, diverse stories being removed in FL schools. We don’t have a PR team or deep pockets to get the word out, so we are grateful for the RTs. The librarian who shared the image w/ us has this message:
Yesterday we logged almost 200 challenges- about 150 of those resulted in immediate removals. This is a picture of all the books removed from one HS library, in one day, in one District, due to the objections of one man. This is not freedom. #FreeTheBooks - “During a hearing in Tallahassee, the Trump-appointed judge asked a representative of Florida AG Ashley Moody's office if, for example, the state believed an official could selectively remove school library books written by Democrat politicians…”
- Thank you for writing amazing books! Please know there are parents and educators in FL in every district fighting back, but it isn’t easy under the GOP machine. We are demanding education leaders put our students first, and stop w/ fear-based decisions.
- Replying to @NinjiHurogWe have that: fftrp.org/florida_censor…
- “Fascism isn’t just going to show up one day and say, ‘I’m here,’ and take all your rights away. It’s creeping in, in increments, and this is the start … right now it’s blatant, in our face, and they’re starting with the books.” - Lisa Superina
- Replying to @FLFreedomRead“…Attorney Bridget O'Hickey replied in the affirmative. If Floridians didn't like it, she added, they could vote that official out.” Thank you @DouglasSoule for this reporting. This is NOT a culture war. This is an attack on our civil liberties.
- We were surprised to see the graphic novel LITTLE ROCK NINE on the FLDOE survey results for removed books in Wakulla Schools. We reached out for documentation on the removal, and this is what we received this morning. Segregation & Brown v. BOE are taught in grade 4.
- Replying to @WSHSNNLibIt’s really terrible policy updates that came over the summer in an effort to “err on the side of caution” and remove books while they await their review. This man figured out by flooding the system he could get the books removed for years. They only review 3-4 books/month.
- “I live in Key West…[we have] a governor who wants to control everything, starting with what kids can think, what they can know, what they can question, what they can learn, and now even what they can talk about.” @judyblume
