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‘Assassination Classroom’: Florida Parents Decry Graphic Books Depicting Students Killing Teacher

April 6, 2023
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Parents have expressed their shock in discovering that a book series about killing a teacher is available in some Florida schools. Days after three children and three staff members of The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, were shot and killed by a 29-year-old former student, Florida parents warned the Hillsborough County School Board about a…

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No One Is Banning Books in Your School Library

April 4, 2023
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Commentary While reading the California Education Code the other day, I made a stunning discovery. School districts are allowed to burn books. Is California that far ahead on the road to totalitarianism? Though it seems like we’re living in Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451” where school districts can technically burn books, the reason for the law…

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Amazon Disappears Two Books on Islam

November 6, 2022
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Commentary In a time when even the conservative imprints of corporate publishing houses are under pressure not to accept books that are too offensive to woke sensibilities (witness the widening protest against Penguin Random House’s contract with Amy Coney Barrett), the New English Review Press, based in Nashville and London, is a priceless cultural institution….

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‘Book Banning’: Ontario School Board Trustees Concerned About Removal of Library Books Deemed ‘Harmful’

October 29, 2021
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An Ontario district school board is rooting out books from its school library collections that are considered “harmful,” but some trustees are raising concerns about censorship and fear the move resembles a book banning. The policy is part of the Waterloo Region District School Board’s (WRDSB) operational plans for 2021-2022, which aims to achieve “an…

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