The Lone Star State is making a run for being the most anti-education in the union.
Gender Queer: A Memoir, no one came close to matching Texas’ volume of banned titles. Florida pulled 566 books out of classrooms, while Pennsylvania banned 457—mostly in conservative York County. Tennessee only banned 349 bans across six districts, so it failed to even medal in the Dumb State Olympics.
According to the study, 1,648 individual titles were banned across the country, affecting 4 million students. Forty-one percent of the banned titles are about LGBTQ themes or have lead or prominent LGBTQ characters, and 40 percent have main or prominent characters of color.The report identified at least 50 activist groups behind the spread of book bans, bent on changing public school systems.
“Parents and community members play an important role in shaping what students learn in school, but this goes far beyond organic expressions of concern or the normal give-and-take between parents and educators in a healthy school environment,” Suzanne Nossel, chief executive officer of PEN America, said in a statement. “These groups have made it their mission to undermine educators, sabotage students’ freedom to read and stoke divisive battles that distract from teaching and learning.
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