Librarians in public schools in Charlotte County, Florida, were instructed by the school district superintendent to remove all books with LGBTQ characters or themes from school and classroom libraries. The guidance by Charlotte County Superintendent Mark Vianello and the school board's attorney, Michael McKinley, was obtained by the Florida Freedom to Read Project (FFTRP) through a public records request and shared with Popular Information. FFTRP requested "electronic records of district and school decisions regarding classroom and library materials." In response, FFTRP received a document memorializing a July 24 conversation between Vianello and district librarians, known in Florida as media specialists.

Librarians in public schools in Charlotte County, Florida, were instructed by the school district superintendent to remove all books with LGBTQ characters or themes from school and classroom libraries. The guidance by Charlotte County Superintendent Mark Vianello and the school board’s attorney, Michael McKinley, was obtained by the Florida Freedom to Read Project (FFTRP) through a public records request and shared with Popular Information. FFTRP requested “electronic records of district and school decisions regarding classroom and library materials.” In response, FFTRP received a document memorializing a July 24 conversation between Vianello and district librarians, known in Florida as media specialists.

  • alekwithak@lemmy.world
    39·
    1 year ago

    Please support Foundation 451 and consider donating. It is a Florida teacher-led organization that has already provided thousands of banned books to Florida students and is opening up banned book libraries all over the state.

    • bobman@unilem.org
      118·
      1 year ago

      Meh. Teachers should just lead themselves to different states and let the effects take care of florida.

      If they want to be a bunch of uneducated slaves, go right ahead.

      • alekwithak@lemmy.world
        11·
        1 year ago

        Do you have any idea what teachers in Florida make? That aside, pushing all the good teachers out of the state is exactly what DeSantis wants. They’ve drastically lowered the qualifications necessary to be a teacher. You seem to understand why. Why do you think they’ll stop with Florida.

        • creamed_eels@toast.ooo
          5·
          1 year ago

          The republican long game is to make public education so terrible and underfunded the next step is to abolish it. Then it’s expensive private Christian schools for those that can afford it, which is less and less each year, and sotdrt for the rest, which has very little to no oversight depending on what state you live in. Then straight from “graduation” to for-profit prisons, the military, or wage-slaving to make billionaires richer.

          • GlendatheGayWitch@lib.lgbtEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Cruz seems to be hopeful that segregation (oops I mean school choice) will be allowed back in schools in the next couple years

        • bobman@unilem.org
          16·
          1 year ago

          Why do you think they’ll stop with Florida.

          Because other places will have learned from florida’s mistakes, and they’ll be better educated.