District 62 candidates criticize book-banning efforts across U.S. 62schools dhelection
As conservative activists and lawmakers push to remove books that address racial issues and the LGBTQ community from classrooms across the country, all five candidates for seats on the Des Plaines School District 62 board say they oppose such censorship.
The candidates were asked what they thought of efforts to restrict student access to books about gender, sexual and racial identity. "Any attempt to ban or exclude is going to hurt our kids now and for the rest of their lives," he said.by signing up you agree to our terms of service "I don't think any student should be banned from reading any book," said Morley, a senior project manager with a health and welfare fund who joined the board in 2015.
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