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In the battle over books, who gets to decide what's age-appropriate at libraries? (www.npr.org)

submitted 11 months ago by Neighborhood339@alien.top to c/books@metacritics.zone

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Interesting article from NPR.

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[–] gold_and_diamond@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

"They've told us here that 'Oh no, you can't have parents involved. You must have experts choosing books for the children,'" Harrison says. "That makes no sense. Parents are the primary stakeholders for children."

---- I love comments like these. I would bet any amount of money that at no point did a librarian or educator say "Oh no, you can't have parents involved." When I was a teacher, I would've given anything to have more parents involved.

[–] onefootinfront_@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think about the parents running around and going to random libraries and board of education meetings in towns they don’t live in… there’s no way they are actually parenting their own kids well, right?

“Sorry honey, I can’t put you to bed again tonight. I have to drive three counties over to protest a book.”

[–] FrankReynoldsToupee@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

The mental gymnastics to justify this must be wild. "But I'm doing this to benefit you!" while their kid is wondering why mom is so wound up over nothing.

[–] hematite2@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

And parents already have a part in the process, with their kids. It's amazing how these people will completely ignore any responsibility as parents to monitor their kids' reading and will try to dump it all on others to parent for them.