Florida school districts have removed other books in effort to comply with state law, but the mounds of books seen in this video from a South Florida middle school library were removed because they were old.
that gives parents more power to challenge books available in schools. Exact numbers are hard to pin down, but the state said at least 175 books were removed from schools in 2022. PEN America, which tracks and opposes book bans, has a higher count that factors in challenges and temporary removals.Officials from Broward County Public Schools and the Broward Teachers Union told PolitiFact that the books in the video were not being banned or challenged.
Although the books at McNicol aren’t banned, that doesn’t mean censorship-related book removals are not happening in other Florida schools. Recently, a school in Miami-Dade County moved"The Hill We Climb," written by poet Amanda Gorman, from the elementary student section to middle school shelves after one parent complained,Social media posts said a video showed boxes of books that were being banned by the DeSantis administration.
School district and state officials said the video showed books that were being"weeded out" at McNicol Middle School in Hollywood, Florida — a common library practice to ensure material is current. The video made inaccurate claims about why the books were being taken out of the library. We rate this claim False.
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