The ACLU has said they are following the situation after they were contacted by students, parents and constituents of the Kent School District.
KENT, Wash. — The Kent School District board will vote Wednesday on whether to remove a book from the Cedar Heights Middle School Library.“Jack of Hearts ” by L.C. Rosen, which features a 17-year-old gay protagonist who is a junior in high school.
The book was pulled from school library shelves, but is now back in circulation, pending the board’s vote on its removal. The district’s Instructional Materials Committee previously voted 12-3 to recommend removing the book from the middle school’s library.“As the principal, I support the community challenge and the removal of ‘Jack of Hearts’ from the Cedar Heights Library,” said Hanson. “The graphic nature of sexual content, profanity, exposure to drugs, alcohol and risky decision-making behaviors in the book ‘Jack of Hearts ’ outweighs literary merit.
Gavin Downing, the teacher-librarian at Cedar Heights, has continued to support the book’s inclusion in the school’s library. “A book may be removed if it is educationally unsuitable, or if it is harmful to minors … and at this time, the book has not been found to be harmful to minors, even in Texas, where this book has faced intense challenges,” said Downing.
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