Two teenagers — one White and transgender, the other a Black high-school student named Richard with a tragic past — ride the same bus home each day.
Due to frank discussions about gender identity, the criminal justice system, and race-based content, the book was part of seven bans in classrooms or libraries over the past school year.
The federal government has no business regulating speech including defamation. If an individual is defamed, they may sue under state laws after the fact.
Not including a book in a state run school is not the same thing as banning. It is merely a matter of whom decides which books. No doubt every school librarian thinks they are the only decider.
In other threads parents are being blamed for their bad behavioured children, and how it disrupts school. Now you want them to decide what books are suitable for kids?
You think arents have the ability to make
If these parents are responsible for determining who will be the next President, they should be considered responsible enough to determine which books their children should read.
Actually, they are responsible most directly for selecting the school board members or those who run the state.
Just saying, there is nothing making the librarian the final “expert” over what books should be selected for schools. Who makes that determination and which books are selected does not make that selection a banning of books that were not selected.