Scholastic Makes It Easy to Ban Black and LGBTQ+ Books

Because Scholastic Book Fairs are invited into schools, where books can be purchased by kids on their own

This is so funny to me. Yeah, its possible. Is it normal? No. It wasnt for me (in ~2004) dozens of teachers and parents watched every child. Pick up the wrong book and I was encouraged often by strangers (who I felt I could trust because this is a safe space) to pick up a different one. My parents vetted every book I bought, and agrangera often gave them insights, too. They never gave me more money than was needed to buy lunch. The scholastic book fair sure was special, but it didn't give me any radical ideas (which I was desperately searching for!)

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The title reads like a Scholastic advertisement... :P
Ironic that they called the collection designed to make it easier to exclude books “Share Every Story, Celebrate Every Voice.”
As Judd Legum reported, one librarian called the option a “bigot button.”
Because Scholastic Book Fairs are invited into schools, where books can be purchased by kids on their own
This is so funny to me. Yeah, its possible. Is it normal? No. It wasnt for me (in ~2004) dozens of teachers and parents watched every child. Pick up the wrong book and I was encouraged often by strangers (who I felt I could trust because this is a safe space) to pick up a different one. My parents vetted every book I bought, and agrangera often gave them insights, too. They never gave me more money than was needed to buy lunch. The scholastic book fair sure was special, but it didn't give me any radical ideas (which I was desperately searching for!)