Highland Park ISD parents start group to protest book suspensions
Highland Park ISD suspended seven books last week after parents objected to some of their content. Now, a group of parents is calling for the books’ return to the classroom.
Two Highland Park High School moms, Laurie Dodic Steinberg and Natalie Davis, are leading the effort. They organized a meeting with about forty parents and students Sunday night. The group will launch an email campaign to object to the books’ suspension and show support for high school English teachers.
The seven suspended books are The Art of Racing in the Rain; The Working Poor: Invisible in America; Siddhartha; The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian; An Abundance of Katherines; The Glass Castle: A Memoir; and Song of Solomon.
Superintendent Dawson Orr suspended the books from classroom use after some parents circulated emails about their sex scenes or references to mature themes such as rape, abuse and abortion.
Read more: http://parkcitiesblog.dallasnews.com/2014/09/highland-park-isd-parents-start-group-to-protest-book-suspensions.html/
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Education does not happen when people are taught to read less.
Way to open up their minds to different concepts, school board! 
It's probably due to agitation by some local fundamentalist assholes who dread the day their kids learn that the world outside includes people who have sex and people who are not like them.
One of the seven removed books is "The Glass Castle: A Memoir" by Jeannette Walls, about growing up in poverty with a father who spent his money on alcohol and a mother who became homeless.
http://www.statesman.com/ap/ap/texas/texas-school-district-temporarily-bans-7-books/nhRzM/
Yes, but what about the children? 
