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Book Riot Celebrates Students Fighting Censorship in Pennsylvania
Kelly Jensen writes the following in “‘I Cannot Let These Doctrines Be the Face of My Education’: Elizabethtown (PA) Students Protest Book Bans” for Book Riot:[Elizabethtown Area School District] students, educators, and community members have watched books be targeted for years. Among the wide-ranging censorship tactics includes one last year, when the district’s board voted to simply eliminate all funding for the middle and high school libraries. That means no new books have been added to the collection. The momentum has continued into this year, when the board demanded the removal of several books from curriculum and instructed educators to come up with alternatives on a compressed timeline. The educators jumped through the hoops, only to be told the new titles were also inappropriate. Students aren’t taking it quietly, either. Like their peers in Central York High School—a 40 minute drive south of Elizabethtown—students have been protesting the board’s censorship agenda. The protests began in the dead of winter, the weather far from amenable for being outside. But students showed up, their voices and beliefs in an education free from bias and far-right indoctrination more important than anything else. For more information, read the article.
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