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Timeflyer's JournalIf one Florida public school library book is "challenged" it can cost thousand$.
If one Florida public school library book is "challenged" and the challenger appeals decision,
it costs the school district thousands of dollars.
On Feb. 7, the Sarasota County School Board voted to require parental consent for some students to check out an anti-racism book. The challenged book, "Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You" by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi, discusses racism and systemic racism in the U.S. It's a YA adaptation of an adult book by Kendi.
In Sarasota a mom (for liberty?) challenged Stamped, which was available to any 6th through 12th grader, but wasn't used as instructional material. She wanted it removed from all district PUBLIC school libraries because CRT, woke, indoctrination, controversial, violates state standards established by the anointed FL legislators, blah, blah, vulnerable children.
There is a long-established procedure in place if a parent objects to a book or other school library material--her child's record is flagged and that particular child cannot check out that particular item. But--nope, not good enough--she appealed, so the entire middle school got involved for a special hearing on this book. The school didn't agree to remove the book from her child's school library. So she appealed again, and a district wide meeting was held. The whole process involved legal fees. If a lawyer takes six hours to read and review a book, research statutes and prepare a opinion, etc., cha-ching. Not to mention the education professionals and administrators and staff involved in the process.
At a public hearing on the challenge before the Sarasota School Board, the woman presented her case. And more than 20 citizens spoke in public comments objecting to her attempted book ban. In the end the board voted to make parents of children grades 6-8 opt in if their child tries to check the book out, but it can stay available without parental permission for check out to grades 9-12.
One book challenged. Thousands of dollars, (which could purchase how many books?) and staff hours spent, because this is DeSadist's Florida.
https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/education/2023/02/07/sarasota-school-board-requires-parent-permission-for-anti-racism-book/69880152007/
If one Florida public school library book is "challenged" and the challenger appeals decision,
it costs the school district thousands of dollars.
On Feb. 7, the Sarasota County School Board voted to require parental consent for some students to check out an anti-racism book. The challenged book, "Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You" by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi, discusses racism and systemic racism in the U.S. It's a YA adaptation of an adult book by Kendi.
In Sarasota a mom (for liberty?) challenged Stamped, which was available to any 6th through 12th grader, but wasn't used as instructional material. She wanted it removed from all district PUBLIC school libraries because CRT, woke, indoctrination, controversial, violates state standards established by the anointed FL legislators, blah, blah, vulnerable children.
There is a long-established procedure in place if a parent objects to a book or other school library material--her child's record is flagged and that particular child cannot check out that particular item. But--nope, not good enough--she appealed, so the entire middle school got involved for a special hearing on this book. The school didn't agree to remove the book from her child's school library. So she appealed again, and a district wide meeting was held. The whole process involved legal fees. If a lawyer takes six hours to read and review a book, research statutes and prepare a opinion, etc., cha-ching. Not to mention the education professionals and administrators and staff involved in the process.
At a public hearing on the challenge before the Sarasota School Board, the woman presented her case. And more than 20 citizens spoke in public comments objecting to her attempted book ban. In the end the board voted to make parents of children grades 6-8 opt in if their child tries to check the book out, but it can stay available without parental permission for check out to grades 9-12.
One book challenged. Thousands of dollars, (which could purchase how many books?) and staff hours spent, because this is DeSadist's Florida.
https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/education/2023/02/07/sarasota-school-board-requires-parent-permission-for-anti-racism-book/69880152007/
DeSadist fascist takeover of FL education going strong--fired New College president and
appointed Richard Corcoran, a proponent of charter schools (which suck up public school tax dollars and conservatives billionaire design the curriculum). DeSatan had earlier appointed Corcoran the Florida Education Commissioner (I almost wrote commissar) because that's what his conservative corporate billionaire donors wanted. Now he's ready to dismantle one of the best public liberal arts colleges, because Hillsdale College wants a Florida campus. There will be nothing "liberal" left when his handpicked president and board member finish with New College.
Because he can, no matter what students, staff, parents, community want, DeSadist is going to take over this college. He is an arrogant bully, and proud of it, who delights in imposing his cruel will wherever it will make political points with his base. He will not back down from a stance no matter how evil and stupid.
Protest fatigue in the darkening Sunshine State
Today the new members of the New College board in Sarasota FL are visiting the campus that they want to turn into "Hillsdale College Florida Branch." There will be protests. I should go, because the evangelical Christofascist takeover of a public college is such a heinous move on the part of DeSadist and it must be opposed--but, jeez, will it make any difference? The takeover of FL by semi-fascist conservatives seem to already be in place. Teachers fear to put books in classroom libraries, women's right to bodily autonomy is partially toasted (15-week ban), and Moms for Bigotry, Proud Louts, and Oath Creepers are out and proud and sitting on school boards here.
Feeling outmatched and tired and whiney. Can't relocate at present. And--gotta remember, nobody forces me to wear fabric around my head in a prescribed way or go to jail, so that's good. Must keep things in perspective. Thanks for listening, DUers.
Training new recruits to take over school boards (Steve Bannon's loving this-"the Proud Boys on
steroids." Sarasota FL school board member and co-founder, with husband, of "Moms for 'Liberty'" Bridget Ziegler is training others in fascist-lite takeovers of school boards. (DeSatan loves her, and her husband thinks he's going to use the connection to follow DeSadist to the White House,) Check out article on training sessions: (if link doesn't work, because of author computer error, it's from Sarasota Herald Tribune, Jan. 18, 2023 front page)
https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/politics/2022/09/09/sarasota-school-boards-ziegler-train-conservatives-run-office/10357946002/
Rallies for women's right to bodily autonomy planned Jan. 21-22, 2023 (Roe 50th).
Planned Parenthood and other women's rights groups around the nation plan to hold rallies Sat. and Sunday to protest Dobbs decision and speak out for our rights. Check out local Planned Parenthood, women's march, google women, reproduction, Jan. 22--information seems to not be centralized, so check state and local groups for places, times.
Rally for Women's Right to Bodily Autonomy
Before things get worse--make your voice heard. There will be rallies to mark Roe's 50th anniversary, and protest abortion care restrictions, held all over the country on Sunday January 22, 2023. Find a local, state or national rally, show up and fight for women's right to bodily autonomy. Check Planned Parenthood or Women's March websites for info on rallies in different areas.
January 22, 2023, nationwide rallies to protest end of Roe--let's raise some hell!
Rallies to mark Roe's 50th anniversary, and protest abortion care restrictions, will be held all over the country on Sunday January 22, 2023. Find a local, state or national rally, show up and fight for women's right to bodily autonomy.
"Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil," by Susan Neiman.
"I began life as a white girl in the segregated South, and I'm likely to end it as a Jewish woman in Berlin," Neiman writes in the prologue. If you're white and have Southern roots, are Jewish, are Black, are interested in the aftermath of WWII in Germany--just everybody, read this book. The author examines how a country, like Germany after the Nazis, and like the U.S. after slavery, can come to terms with its historical wrongdoing. If nothing else, read pages 84-86 where she summarizes "crucial facets of any successful attempt to work off a nation's criminal past
1."The nation must achieve a coherent and widely accepted national narrative. Here language is front and center. Was the Civil War about slavery or states' rights?..."
2."Narratives start with words and are reinforced by symbols, and many symbols involve remembering the dead. Which heroes do we valorize, which victims do we mourn?..."
3."Narratives are transported through education. What are children taught to remember, and what are they meant to forget?..."
4. "Words are even more powerful when set to music. So can we sing 'Dixie'? What about the German national anthem? It gives most foreigners a chill, for they cannot help thinking of 'Deutschland uber alles.'...
5. "What about things that are less symbolic: hard, cold things like prison cells and cash? Are perpetrators brought to justice and placed behind bars? Is restitution made to victims of injustice?..."
I can't do justice to this book, because it's so good and I'm so lazy. Read other reviews, and read this book. I'm so lazy I almost forgot to add that I learned about "Learning from..." through a DU video--thanks, DUers!
Working off a country's debts to the past.
OK, this is long, covers a lot, but so relevant to our time of demonizing CRT, rising anti-Semitism, racism, misogyny, and just outright nastiness. From "Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil," by Susan Neiman, pp84-86.
“These are crucial facets of any successful attempt to work off a nation’s criminal past:
1. The nation must achieve a coherent and widely accepted national narrative. Here language is front and center. Was the Civil War about slavery or states rights? The U.S. Department of Citizenship and Immigration Services isn’t certain. Was May 8, 1945, a Day of Liberation, or a Day of Unconditional Capitulation to Foreign Powers? Since the GDR (East Germany) called it a “Day of Liberation” from its inception. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer thought the use of the word liberation was communist. Although the East German narrative, like most any narrative, was incomplete, its tenor was very clear: NAZIS WERE BAD, DEFEATING THEM GOOD was never in doubt in one side of the country. For a good thirty years in the West, by contrast, that simple claim was drenched in ambivalence.
2. Narratives start with words and are reinforced by symbols, and many symbols involve remembering the dead. Which heroes do we valorize, which victims do we mourn? The United States has hundreds of monuments depicting a noble-looking Robert E. Lee, commander of the Confederate Army. In 2018, Bryan Stevenson dedicated a national monument to honor the victims of lynching, but where are the national monuments to the freedom fighter John Brown—or at least to Harriet Tubman? There are no monuments to the Nazis in Germany, East or West, but only after reunification did West Germany build significant monument to the victims.
3. Narratives are transported through education. What are children taught to remember, and what are they meant to forget? American textbooks have been improved since I was a child, when the heroic story of western expansion left out the genocide of Native Americans entirely, glossed over the horrors of slavery, and never mentioned Jim Crow. East German history textbooks were resolutely antifascist from the beginning. In the first decades after the war, West German children were left with the impression that history stopped after 1933; neither their teachers nor their textbooks discussed the Nazi period. Today Nazism is not merely covered in history classes; it has a central place in subjects like literature and art.
4. Words are even more powerful when set to music. So can we sing “Dixie”? What about the German national anthem? It gives most foreigners a chill, for they cannot help thinking of “Deutschland uber alles.” The anthem’s defenders are keen to point out that the tune was written by Joseph Haydn long ago. That notwithstanding, the GDR wrote new music as well as lyrics for its own national anthem. A national anthem, done properly, expresses its peoples’ best hopes. Done properly. It may be time for the United States to rewrite our national anthem, with its unsingable tune and its reference to a war no one remembers…
5. What about things that are less symbolic: hard, cold things like prison cells and cash? Are perpetrators brought to justice and placed behind bars? Is restitution made to victims of injustice? It took decades to bring the murderers in the most famous civil rights cases—Medgar Evars, Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner—to justice, and most criminals never faced justice at all. The Emmett Till case was reopened in 2018—sixty-three years after the murder…The list could easily be continued. West German justice prosecuted only a tiny number of Nazis and usually commuted the sentences of those who were convicted. East Germany tried and convicted a far greater proportion of war criminals. Both countries paid reparations, in different ways, for crimes committed in the Nazi era. As of this writing, The United States has refused to consider a congressional resolution to discuss the possibility of reparations for slavery.
This list is not exhaustive. Depending on time and place, other elements may come into play in a country’s attempt to work off its debts to the past.”
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