According to PEN America, from July 2021 through March 2022, there were nearly 1,600 actions taken in school districts to ban more than 1,100 titles.
PEN America defines a banned book as a book that was a"previously accessible book but becomes either completely removed from availability to students, or where access to a book is restricted or diminished because of its content."
As efforts to ban books have risen nationwide, school board meetings have become increasingly contentious. "I mean, there's not two sides to this issue. There are moms who love their kids, who don't want pornography in school, and then there are people who do want pornography in school. I think that the book issue has been used to try to marginalize and vilify parents. And the truth is there is no place for pornography in public schools," Justice told Miller."Our moms are not political. This is something that I think has been assumed and is really wrong.
"The truth of the matter is that most of these books are being couched in, they're being like, seated down and challenged based on obscenity which is an excuse to not have to say it's because there are racial topics or there are sexual topics in these books," Reynolds said.
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