Parent Complained About A Digital Book. Then Orange County School Board Suspended The Whole Library
A Parent Complained About A Digital Book. Then An Orange County School Board Suspended The Whole Library
Students at Orange Unified School District no longer have access to a digital library after parents complained that some books available through the app were inappropriate for children.
The district's newly appointed interim superintendent, Edward Velasquez, suspended the Sora library app earlier this week, prompting outrage among some parents and praise from others.
"This isn’t book banning or censorship," wrote one man on the public Facebook group OUSD Buzz. "This is ensuring age appropriate materials remain where they should be."
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The book that prompted the interim superintendent to suspend student access to the Sora library app is the young adult novel "The Music of What Happens."
During the public comment period at the Jan. 19 board meeting, a mother of three students in the district read graphic passages from the book. She said the book was "not an isolated incident. There's more on Sora." She also said the app had no effective parental controls.
Another parent at the meeting took issue with the book "A Polar Bear in Love," which she said was available to her second grader on her school-issued iPad through an app called Library Pass. The story is about a polar bear who falls in love with a younger seal of the same sex. She called the main character "an innocently illustrated sexual predator polar bear."
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