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The Tennessee Conservative Staff –
A proposal to remove books with explicit imagery failed in a vote by the Knox County School Board, even though a recently amended state law will require the removal of the materials in just a few weeks.
Board member Susan Horn pushed for the district to remove “any material containing images depicting a sex act(s), or sexual activity.”
In a vote during their meeting on June 6, four Republican board members voted in favor of the removal of those books: Horn, Kristi Kristy, Steve Triplett, and Travis Wright. Democrat Katherine Bike and Independent Jennifer Own both voted against the proposal, while Democrat John Butler and Independent Daniel Watson opted to pass on the vote. Republican Betsy Henderson was not present at the meeting.
Triplett encouraged board members to vote for the proposal, if for no other reason than the fact that it is just early compliance with the upcoming changes to the state law.
“I strongly believe what I’m asking is scripturally correct…but you don’t have to agree with that. We also have state law that agrees with that,” Triplett stated.
Those who voted against the proposal basically said that there was no reason to make the change when the amended law will go into effect on July 1. Horn, however, told Knox News that she just wanted to be proactive.
According to a statement from Knox County Schools’ academic resource supervisor Sarah Searles in April, the school district is creating school library councils and sensitive title review committees.
The councils will be created at each school and will be made up of five to seven stakeholders – a librarian, the school principal or their designee, a teacher, a counselor, and a parent. These groups will be responsible for removing outdated materials from the library as well as making them more accessible to the community.
Each sensitive title review committee will serve at a grade-level band: elementary, middle, and high school. Committees will be made up of a representative from each of the five regions within the school district. They will provide recommendations to each of the library councils who will then make the final determination.
5 Responses
How , and Why , is it that People from your own
county … neighbors that you know full well do not
believe in exposing our children to ” Pornography …
People that you know share the same conservative
wholesome values that you do , and vote that way
on most issues ….
WHY in the World would they Vote to keep trashy
PORN STORE material in our schools for Children
to be exposed to ?? ARE they being …
” Threatened ” if they don’t vote that way ?
Are they being … ” Paid ” to vote that way ??
It’s not just Knoxville …. I’ve seen news clips
from all over the Country of School Boards ,
as Parents berate the Board members for voting
to expose Kids to filth that ‘they’ would not read,
while the Board members all sit silent and stony faced
while pulling a 10 on the butt pinch meter !!
( just sit still and silent , try not to sweat ,
just 30 more minutes and the meeting will be over )
Any member that votes for this kind of crud …
need not ever again appear in public , tooting their
own horn , about how wholesome and moral you are
… because the spotlight is on you , you’ve been
uncovered … now scurry on off !!
Agreed 100%
I think parents should be able to vote on whether questionable books are appropriate or not. After all they are our kids not the school boards.
Lucifer’s “people”, promoting lucifer’s agenda.
Criminal indictments should begin July 1 if that material is not destroyed. The free pass that only the public school system has enjoyed to criminally contribute to the delinquency of minors (using other people’s money) comes to an end.
If every parent yanked their kids out of these schools “en masse” wouldn’t that solve the issue and send a crystal clear message? What are they gonna do? Round everyone up and jail em? People, we have so much more power than you realize.