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Age inappropriate according to whom? I can think of all sorts of stuff that’s objectionable in places like Florida but perfectly fine elsewhere. Example: a story with a gay character might flip out Ron Desantis but not raise an eyebrow in Berkeley.

No one wants age inappropriate stuff. We just have some wildly different ideas of what that means.

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>I can think of all sorts of stuff that’s objectionable in places like Florida but perfectly fine elsewhere

Can you name a tittle that Florida has removed from public schools but you feel is appropriate?

Here's a whole list of 'em: https://pen.org/banned-books-florida/

There are the usual ones like "My Two Dads and Me" and "My Two Moms and Me". "The Berenstain Bears and the Big Question", LOL? "Hachiko: The True Story of a Loyal Dog", WTF. "Henry Aaron’s Dream", for people who find baseball offensive, I guess. "The Life of Rosa Parks". "Thank You, Jackie Robinson"; more baseball hate. "Unstoppable: How Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team Defeated Army" shows some people hate football, too.

Each of those is appropriate for kids, and I'd love to hear specific reasons why someone believes one isn't.

>I'd love to hear specific reasons why someone believes one isn't.

How can you disagree with the reasons those books were removed when you admit you don't know the reason.

It’s on the people banning a Rosa Parks story to provide the extraordinary evidence that it was deserved.

They obviously have reasons. Without looking at the book, we can't say if it should be in schools or shouldn't. When explaining Racism to Grade 2 students great care must be taken. Imagine being the only black kid in all white classroom. You know you look different. Everyone does, but no one thinks anything of it. And then they tell you that you are systematically oppressed, and that your race, not your character, is the characteristic that will define your life experience. Good Luck kid!

Also, we don't see the list of other civil right books that may be in classrooms.

But the fact that "The Berenstain Bears and the Big Question", a book about God, was rejected suggests that this isn't some conservative conspiracy.

In fact, it sounds like a moral panic from the left.

The ABC's of Black History was removed from elementary schools and only allowed in middle schools in Miami-Dade.

What is the reason it was removed, and what issue do you have with that reason?

I listed a title, which is what you asked for. I’m not here to lay out the entire case. Rest assured, it is easily searchable if you are so inclined. If not, that’s fine too. Enjoy your night.

I don't know if you've read the book or not, or heard the arguments against it, but your response sounds exactly like the response someone would give if they only know the title of the book and that others have defended it, but is totally unfamiliar with the content.

The problem is the gay character is at a strip show, and nobody in Berkeley is batting an eye at young kids being around as men get money shoved in their under garments at a drag show

That’s idiotic. You believed the lie.

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