This summer, Texas officials tried to ban a book called “Forget the Alamo,” a revisionist history of the 1836 battle at the fortress in San Antonio. Schools are precisely the place where politics and identity are shaped, and because of this, students need the widest array of materials to learn from, including those that offend censorious parents on the left as well as the right. “Schools are not the place for politics or identity to be shaped,” one mother who supports the ban declared.
So far, this vetting has taken nearly a year, as CNN has reported. School officials say the materials are not banned, just “frozen” while the board vets them. This week, students protested the move outside the Central York High School, and at a virtual school board meeting Monday, students, parents and other community members debated the list. It included, as CNN reported, a children’s book about Rosa Parks, a memoir by Malala Yousafzai and a CNN town hall on race featuring Muppets from “Sesame Street.”
In recent days, we read about the all-White school board in York, Pa., which voted unanimously last October to ban several educational resources that fall into the category of “anti-racism.” Teachers received the list of articles, books and videos last month, according to the Allentown daily, the Morning Call.
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