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maintain better control over their kids instead of trying to trash a public resource??
The public managing a public resource in the way they see fit is not trashing it. That's how it's supposed to work.
Censorship of all families' choices because you are too inept to manage your own child is not actually how "it" is supposed to work
I'm confused, because in a majority of your comments it sounds like you read "parents pushing government to dictate what books are allowed in libraries" and translate it into "the public managing a public resource." The assumption it sounds like your making is that those parents represent the interests of the public at large. That's a shaky assumption at the best of times; you have to realize that a vocal minority like that isn't just trying to manage the public resource for themselves, but also to manage it for everyone else, determining what the rest of the public has access to. So it's more than likely the rest of the public ain't really cool with that, which is why a lot of people here are telling them to piss off. If you're advocating for the public to manage its own resources, then you can't just blot out sections of the public you don't like.
Learn how to parent instead of expecting the library to do it for you. If you don't like the library's recommendations, do a better job helping your child pick books. It doesn't need a drastic overhaul because you personally didn't like their book choices.