Parents who first packed school board meetings to express their opposition to mask mandates have since broadened their focus to other issues, including an effort to remove explicit books from school libraries.
after a suburban Salt Lake City district removed several books including “The Bluest Eye,” by Toni Morrison, pending investigation into a parent complaint. Other books that have been the subject of complaints in the city’s schools include titles with LGBTQ characters and plot lines.
“It’s a terrible message to send to young people,” Stone said. “For me, it’s just astonishing that so many groups that use ‘liberty’ in their names, that claim that they’re all for freedom and the individual right to exercise freedom, resort so quickly to use censorship.”a conservative group that says it challenges “short-sighted and destructive” policies in public schools.
In September, Balow joined Wyoming’s Republican legislative leaders in supporting proposed state legislation to counter the teaching of “,” which has become a catch-all term for efforts to teach that systemic racism remains a persistent problem in the U.S. Opponents of those efforts say they are divisive and counterproductive.
“I figured living in Cheyenne, Wyoming, we would be safe,” said Ashby, who removed her three children from the district at the start of the school year because of the mask mandate. Opponents of the books gained one school board member’s sympathy after district officials deleted Ashby’s reading of the sexual material from an online video out of concern YouTube could suspend the district’s account.
On the night Ashby read to the school board, just one person spoke in favor of the mask mandate or keeping the books.
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