The Orlando mother of five calls herself a book lover. She believes they impart valuable lessons to children and teens. School district matters and board meetings weren’t even on her radar.

Then, she came across a list of books passed on by a friend that were described as sexually explicit, even pornographic, and commonly found in schools.

She checked them out from a library.

“There’s not just one or two pages. The vast majority of these, it’s like tons of inappropriate content,” she said, pointing to a book sitting next to her. “The entire storyline is just about a girl losing her virginity — sexual acts.”

The rush to remove

“Book challenging really follows whatever is causing anxiety in society,” Dr. Emily Knox, a researcher and professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, said.

Due to the shifting conversations around race and sexual identity, Knox said she was not surprised that parents were challenging an increased number of titles from their district libraries, though she was careful to separate the two into different movements.

The movement that Farrant became an advocate for was centered around sex and sexual identity. Some advocates have pushed for removing any novel that discusses subjects certain groups view as taboo. In past years this was divorce. More recently, targets include gay relationships or marriage and transgender children.

Farrant does not consider herself that extreme, even if she does not personally agree with the content of those books. Her view, and the opinions of other Central Florida parents, is based on sex alone, that anything that wouldn’t be OK for students to discuss loudly in the hallways shouldn’t be found on library shelves.

Some books, like “Tricks,” the novel she considers the most offensive still on the shelves and the one she pointed to earlier, are full of descriptions of sexual acts and rape. Other books, like “Born a Crime” by Trevor Noah, she takes issue with only because it can be found in middle schools, not just high schools.

“Tricks” was given an age rating of 14 to 18 years, while “Born a Crime” is rated appropriate for children 11+.

Debate surges

The first signs that the movement was coming to Central Florida happened at an Orange County School Board meeting in October.

As parents packed into the room to discuss masking, one man stood up and complained about the novel “Gender Queer.” He read a passage from the book. Board Chairwoman Teresa Jacobs asked him to stop.

When he kept going, she asked an officer to escort him from the room, telling the audience that she believed it was too inappropriate for a publicly broadcast meeting as well as the library shelves.

“Anything that is sexually explicit, sexually arousing, anything of that sort … we don’t need that,” she said. “There are thousands of books out there that do not contain this kind of material.”

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Manhattan, New York

Parents Mortified to Find Out Elite Prep School Subjected Kids to a ‘Pornography Literacy’ Class

 By Isa Cox  May 24, 2021 at 4:58pm

Parents at an elite Manhattan prep school are irate after discovering that their children were presented with a shockingly graphic and detailed seminar on “pornographic literacy.”And yes, this is what it was actually called.Although educator Justine Ang Fonte is the Health & Wellness director at the elite Dalton School in Manhattan’s Upper East Side, parents at Columbia Grammar & Prepatory School were unprepared for — and indeed, not even warned about — the explicit presentation she recently gave to 120 teenagers called “Pornography Literacy: An intersectional focus on mainstream porn,” the New York Post reports.

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The workshop, it appears, is exactly what it sounds like: a lecture on sex and pornography from the perspective of intersectionality, an ideology well within the realm of critical theory, the philosophy that views the world entirely along the lines of oppression and complex, elusive hierarchies of victimhood.

Indeed, a photograph from Fonte’s website celebrating the start of her “11th year disrupting health education” indicates quite plainly that her mode of teaching youngsters about “health and wellness” has everything to do with this radical, Marxist-based ideology.

Fonte doesn’t appear to mind how much she traumatizes students with highly adult concepts and images in the process.

While the Post noted that the concept of “pornography literacy” appears to have originally been aimed at countering the dangers of being exposed to pornography as one’s primary means of sexual education, the incredibly graphic nature of her seminar seems to totally contradict this intention.

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Fonte’s lesson for the Columbia students addressed porn and the “three big male vulnerabilities,” so-called “orgasm gap” statistics that professed to accurately portray the rate at which straight women have orgasms as compared to gay men and women and straight men the most commonly searched for porn terms of 2019 and a handy guide to various porn genres such as “incest-themed,” consensual or “vanilla,” “barely legal,” and “kink and BDSM,” for which the latter “waterboard electro” was given as an example.

Why, exactly, does a teenager need a crash-course in the darkest depths of pornographic culture in order to learn not to view pornography as sexual education, exactly?

Would you be upset if your child’s school offered this lecture?

One part of the lecture also included an informative quote from an Only Fans star — i.e. a person who sells pornographic images of herself to strangers on the internet for very quick and easy cash — who laments she must describe herself as a “girl” in spite of her own gender identity.

“I identify as non-binary,” the young woman was quoted as saying, “but because that hasn’t hit the general consciousness of the adult industry, I say ‘girl,’ because that’s what people who want to buy my content will be looking for.”

Apparently, it is super important for teenagers to understand the culturally unenlightened proclivities of the modern American pornography consumer are yet another indication of bias against the non-gender-conforming … because “health education.

“We were all like, ‘What?’” one student told The Post.

“Everyone was texting each other, ‘What the hell is this? It’s so stupid.’ Everyone knows about porn. The worst part of it was that it took place not long before the AP tests and I had to miss both my AP classes for this.”

OK, when a teenager knows it’s stupid that you’re trying to teach underage kids about the rate at which various demographics of adults have orgasms or what sick fetishes Americans largely have because they would rather do their AP courses, you know you’ve gotten way off base.

Now I know this sounds crazy, but adults with even the slightest idea of what constitutes decent, appropriate behavior should do their best to ensure that those lucky modern teens who haven’t yet been exposed to the internet’s broad range of base sexual filth definitely do not need to know about American proclivities for incest or torture porn.

This irritated and studious AP student wasn’t the only one who was disgruntled. Many of her peers viewed the lecture at home via Zoom, the Post notes, which is how so many parents became apprised of the graphic content contained within. Others were made to watch the lecture on their laptops at school.

“We were supposed to answer questions about the porn stuff in the Zoom chat but we were all side-chatting in group chats and tons of kids thought it was so dumb that they sent the link to their friends all over the city and they were all logging on with the password,” another student said.

Oh, please let this next generation be galvanized by the sheer idiocy of the adults currently indoctrinating them with this garbage, because boy, I can’t really see our society lasting much longer if they don’t start learning to push back against this depravity and nonsense soon.

Of course, for the parents of future generations struggling to give their kids a halfway decent education without subjecting them to radical, hyper-ideological indoctrination, it can be difficult to stand up to the woke crowd.

“No one wants to be cancelled or lose their livelihood and that can be done in an instant,” one mother who spoke to the Post on the condition of anonymity explained. “Most parents feel the same way I do about not going public but at the same time we’re incredibly frustrated by what’s going on. None of the parents knew this was planned. We were completely left in the dark. It makes us wonder what else the school is up to.”

The Post also spoke with three other parents who requested the school show them the content from the presentation after it had taken place but were “rebuffed.”

One mother secured a Zoom meeting with administrations, which “went nowhere,” she said. “The sophistry was incredible.”

A spokesperson from the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism who spoke with The Post explained that “This is all part of an orthodoxy that has taken over schools across the country.”

“Millions of kids are being experimented on with a new curriculum that racializes and sexualizes young children, labels them by traits like skin color, gender or sexual orientation, and tells them the paths of their lives are determined by those traits.”

Parents are growing concerned that Columbia may end up like the rest of Manhattan prep schools who have embraced intersectional ideology and as it had remained one of the last prep schools in the city “not to have gone down the radicalized rabbit hole,” as one parent put it.

Now, the school is set to hire a DEI — a director of diversity, equity and inclusion.

Last week, fed-up Columbia parents launched the Instagram account @SpeakUpCGPS.

“An ideology masquerading as ‘social justice’ threatens to destroy our school. Speak up!”the account’s bio reads. One post reassures fellow parents “We won’t be offended if you don’t follow us. We understand,” offering an email for any stories that will be kept completely confidential.

The account also shared a number of slides from the explicit presentation.

The school, for its part, admitted fault, to a degree.

Shortly after the Post published their story on the pornography class, the head of school for Columbia, Dr. William M. Donohue, sent an email to parents professing, “It was unfortunate that we did not better inform ourselves of the speaker’s specific content in advance. In this case, the speaker did not align with our unique CGPS mission and for this, I apologize … Going forward we will certainly learn from this experience.”

Like so much of the problematic radical ideology that has been permeating our academic institutions and corporate culture, this type of “health education” seems more likely to exacerbate any problems in society it is attempting to solve.

Pornography cheapens sex and certainly shows some of the basest aspects of human nature, and there is absolutely no need whatsoever to expose teenagers — or anyone else you think should have a healthy view of sex for that matter — to explicit, graphic sexual terminology, images or attitudes on sex to address any issues with pornography.

This truly is not about “health,” it’s about the radical “disruption”the critical theorists are threatening to cause within the very fabric of our society, including the incredibly important sexual norms that at one time kept children much safer from irresponsible behavior and families more unified in their intention to reserve sex for the confines of traditional marriage.

We’ve got to ask American parents this until we’re blue in the face — do you know what is being taught at your child’s school?Because we really can’t even be sure anymore how far they’re going to go with this stuff.

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Now Read the Media Response.

The keywords are , Book banning, Free Speech, Health Education

Are they not promoting the sexualization of children and pedophilia?

How to beat a book ban: students, parents and librarians fight back

As rightwing campaigns for censorship sweep the US, opponents are finding ways to keep books on the shelves.

The censorship of books in the US has reached crisis level.

More than 2,500 different book bans were enacted in schools across 32 US states during the 2021-2022 school year, according to a new report by Pen America. And attempts to ban books from libraries are on track to exceed 2021’s already record-setting figures, the American Library Association said on Friday.

But still, there is cause for hope.

Across the country, parents, students, teachers, librarians and community groups have successfully fought back against attempted bans, defeating well-funded, rightwing attempts to remove books that address issues of race, sexuality and gender.

A Frenzy of Book Banning

Virginia’s Spotsylvania County School Board this week voted unanimously to have books with “sexually explicit” material removed from school library shelves.

This was just one example of an aggressive new censoriousness tearing through America, as the campaign against critical race theory expands into a broader push to purge school libraries of books that affront conservative sensibilities regarding race and gender. 

With the rush to ban critical race theory, conservatives already gave up posturing as defenders of free speech.Still, this sudden mania for book banning is striking. It’s part of a broader attack on public schools, one that draws on anger over critical race theory, mask mandates and sometimes even QAnon-inflected fears about pedophile conspiracies.

This spreading moral panic demonstrates, yet again, why the left needs the First Amendment, even if the veneration of free speech has fallen out fashion among some progressives.

“What we’re seeing is really this idea that marginalized communities, marginalized groups, don’t have a place in public school libraries, or public libraries, and that libraries should be institutions that only serve the needs of a certain group of people in the community,” said Caldwell-Stone. 

Country Star Compares Teachers To Pedophiles In Speech Backing Tennessee Book Ban

A legislative push in Tennessee to ban “obscene” books from schools resulted in a surreal hearing on Wednesday, with country music star John Rich arguing that librarians and teachers pose a greater threat to children than actual pedophiles.

The measure in question, HB 1944, would prohibit public and charter schools from “making obscene materials or materials harmful to minors” available to students. Notably, the bill does not define what would qualify as “obscene.”

How a Harmless Teacher Got Branded a ‘Pedophile’ by Extremists

“The worst parts of this are at the beginning.”

That’s what Laney Dicksion mumbled as she angrily flipped through Gender Queer—a graphic memoir about exploring gender identity and sexuality—for a local Oklahoma TV broadcast last month.

The teacher in question Summer Boismier provided students with a QR code leading them to UnBanned—a Brooklyn Public Library program offering teenagers unlimited digital and audio access to banned or challenged books—on the first day of school last month.

Boismier resigned just days after dishing out the QR code. In so doing, she styled herself a defiant champion of free thought in Oklahoma, a state that last year enacted a law—HB 1775—targeting so-called critical race theory. The right-wing bete noire is effectively nonexistent in the classes taught to young American kids, even as rage about it has fed a larger cultural panic over education nationwide.

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So, the new heroism is to provide children with banned explicit material and resign.

What do you think about it?

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