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The Tennessee Conservative [By Paula Gomes] –
The Williamson County School Board voted Monday night to keep books, that some in the community deemed inappropriate, on school library shelves.
Board members voted 8 to 2 to keep five books that had been challenged – Speak, Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Field Guide to the North American Teenager, Where the Crawdads Sing, and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
The two no votes came from conservative board members Dan Cash and Donna Clements who were endorsed by Williamson Families PAC. The PAC was founded in 2021 to encourage and support conservative Williamson County residents to run for county office.
Earlier this year, a district committee recommended keeping the books in school libraries. Members of the community and some board members feel the decision to keep them available to students violates the state’s Age Appropriate Act.
During Monday night’s meeting, Clements said, “My concern, and I think there’s been a lot of confusion going back and forth about book bans, what we are allowed to do, what we aren’t allowed to do. We took an oath of office to follow state law. And we have a state law that we have not really paid attention to, and I’m concerned, we need to follow the state law.”
Trisha Lucente accused the board of providing pornographic materials to children by keeping the books.
“Our taxpayer-funded public-school libraries should not contain explicit, violent, and pornographic material that offers no educational value,” said Lucente. “Removing a book from a school library or restricting access via mature reading list is not book banning.”
Parents in Williamson County currently have the choice to opt-in or opt-out of books that their children have access to in school libraries.
At a prior work session, Donna Clements, Dan Cash, Jay Galbreath, and Josh Brown all looked likely to vote against keeping the books. While Galbreath ended up voting to keep them, Brown abstained from voting altogether.
Brown, a Vice President of state government relations for Pfizer, was voted in as interim school board member or Williamson County’s District 4 in October 2021 and won the election to retain the seat in 2022. Odd numbered districts for school board are up for re-election in 2024.
Prior to Monday night’s meeting, school board members were bombarded with emails from Williamson County residents who threatened possible legal action if the board voted to remove any books from the district.
Watch the meeting below:
About the Author: Paula Gomes is a Tennessee resident and reporter for The Tennessee Conservative. You can reach Paula at paula@tennesseeconservativenews.com.
9 Responses
That’s alright, that’s OK, another school board election (odd numbered districts) is coming up next year. Williamson County conservatives, watch the endorsements of Williamson Families PAC then be sure to vote. It only takes a few hundred votes to swing some of these elections one way or the other.
I am sure the school and boards would be okay with some old playboy mags as well as old hustler mags to be sent to the school for “age appropriate” reading. There are some good articles I hear from those publications. Once they are opened and viewed, it can’t be unseen. This is pathetic from people in charge of what children read.
Sound’s like Crashville’s done rubbed off on Williamson County.
Conservatives have now taken back control of the Williamson GOP from the Libs who were letting Leftists run as Republicans for School Board, and now need to work with Moms and Williamson Families to vote out anyone who voted for these books. The Dem claim that not allowing porn is “book banning” is ridiculous – no one would or should allow porn or books that teach kids to be evil, racists, pedophiles, etc.
The same sick evil leftists gladly ban any conservative, family oriented, and religious material every chance they get, yet they scream from the rooftops if you don’t want kids exposed to explicit gay porn.
Tells you everything you need to know about the left right there.
Williamson county keeps installing evil far left extremists with R next to their names because 1) People don’t pay the F attention and as long as “R” is there, don’t care if they vote for Beelzebub, 2) due to ongoing efforts by evil sick lying oxygen thief !@#!% election commissioner Jon Duda, and the treasonous Williamson County 16 who decided to spend taxpayer money to remove taxpayer’s actual right to vote with un-auditable fraud machines, they install whatever sick evil cohort they want.
1&2 above are how you get sick leftist extremist animals like Sam Whitson, who has an R next to his name but votes like an antifa member, representing Williamson County. It’s how you get a supposedly republican school board that votes to keep gay porn in schools. It’s how you get 16 treasonous vermin on the Williamson County commission who collude with oxygen thief Duda and take bribes from ES&S to spend taxpayer money to eliminate the taxpayer’s voice in their own representation.
The Williamson County republican leadership got wiped out in the last leadership election, and the new leadership better start cleaning their own house, because right now the Williamson County republican party looks like a joint venture between Satan and Sorros.
I would say most of them are Democrat perverts who condone corruption of children and should be REMOVED from office.
Well said thank you!
Seems like we have a lot of perverts on our school board. Parents I advise that you get your kids out of this corrupt system until they listen and do what they are told. They work for us, not the other way around. We want to vote them out but then they just voted to keep the machines that steal our votes, so we are losing control to monsters who are grooming our children. And they are indeed monsters. If you vote yes to the grooming of a child, you’re a pervert and a monster. These people do not listen to our voices. How many school board meetings have we attended? How many people have asked to have this stuff removed? I watched their smug faces as parents have cried and pleaded to remove the trash from our children. Why are we begging evil to protect our children? Why are we pleading with and wasting our time with these people? We’re talking to walls my friends. YOU are the parent! YOU own your child! That child belongs to God not the school board, or the state, or the country. YOU were given guardianship over that child. Protect your children! Stop waiting for these people to care, it’s not going to happen.