School district reinstates book at center of parents' fury

[AZLD4Candidate]

Source: NBC News

A school district near Houston said Thursday that it had returned an award-winning children's book to its library shelves and rescheduled a virtual appearance by its author after a review committee had determined the book's "appropriateness" amid parents’ claims that it espoused critical race theory.

The book's illustrator and writer, Jerry Craft, whose books tell stories about Black children struggling to fit into unfamiliar settings, had been set to appear virtually this month at Roosevelt Alexander Elementary School until the Katy Independent School District scrapped the event after some parents objected.

Craft's graphic novel "New Kid" was awarded the John Newbery Medal last year. It tells the story of seventh-grader Jordan Banks and how he navigates his worlds at home and at a prestigious private school where he is one of the few minority students.

The school district said in a statement to NBC News on Thursday afternoon that its review committee had met this week and “determined the appropriateness of the book, ‘New Kid.’”

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/school-district-reinstates-book-at-center-of-parents-fury/ar-AAPx4El

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Again, Texas.

Do these people even know what it is, or only what Mark Levin, Glenn Beck, Fox News, and the rest of the echo chamber say it is?

[Biophilic]

1. It truly is a crazy time we live in and I so appreciate stories

that show that some of us aren't crazy after all. After the absurd story about the need for need for teachers to have an opposing view if they had a book about the Holocaust in their class room it's reassuring to know that some places are still thinking sanely even in Texas.

[2Gingersnaps]

14. That case in the Carroll Indepenent School District in Southlake near Dallas Fort Worth

about opposing viewpoints on the Holocaust started because a fourth grade teacher had an anti-racism book on the shelf and was forced to take it off. The holocaust thing was an "abundance of precaution," Housebill 3979 is a new Texas law that requires opposing points of views on "widely debated and currently controversial issues." You know, like CRT, real history, or fact in general in the face of popular disinformation. Otherwise they would know CRT is a theory debated in law school.....not taught in fourth grade.

[tulipsandroses]

2. Sometimes, I think it's not a bad idea for these folks that want to secede

Put them all an island together, far away from rational decent people.

[Grokenstein]

4. Maybe we could convince them to colonize the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

...That's kind of an island, right? /s

[Hekate]

9. That't the first secession idea I could get behind. nt

[0rganism]

12. Like Gilligan's Island meets The Walking Dead

Part of me wants to claim I wouldn't watch that show, but most of me is saying "release the camera drones"

[2Gingersnaps]

15. I think it would be a great idea to let Mexico have them back so that their dogma

could be reconciled with their actual history, like the Mexican-American War and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago in 1848. I bet Mexican school children learn all about that.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Educational choices should be made by educated people

Not by low-life RWNJs

[Igel]

5. Another district nearby is trying to ban

"To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Of Mice and Men".

Most parents are arguing against it. It's the review committee that primarily insists on the banning.

[3catwoman3]

7. And do we want to place any wagers...

…have actually read either one?

[wnylib]

13. They probably have read them which is why

they want to.ban them. They don't like the social message that the books deliver.

[2Gingersnaps]

16. Ouch, two of my favorite childhood books.

[onecaliberal]

6. They don't know their ass from a hole in the ground.

[Gore1FL]

8. Critical Race Theory, Communism, Immigration, Flag kneeling, Common Core, Restrooms, etc.

They repeat the same phrases over and over to induce fear and outrage. Definitions aren't a consideration. Scary words are interchangeable to the manipulated lunatics on the right, it's just good to mix them up and add new ones every so often.

[Hekate]

10. I think you've spotted the strategy

[dlk]

11. Republicans are directing all of their efforts to break our democracy

They run on fear. Imagine being so fragile that a different idea or opinion would be so eminently threatening.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

17. Katy ISD reinstates banned books, reschedules author visit after critical race theory allegations r

Link to tweet

[The Wizard]

18. The cult sounds like

criminals covering up a crime. They proudly wear their bigotry.