Eighth-grader Joslyn Diffenbaugh was so incensed after reading about censorship efforts in Texas and elsewhere that she formed a Banned Books Reading Club for middle and high school students in Kutztown, Pennsylvania.
, will allow parental input into all curricula, ostensibly to weed out CRT or other “divisive” topics. The bill also mandates parental consent before a minor can receive mental health, psychological or social and emotional support from school personnel.
The Banned Books Reading Club began meeting in a Kutztown bookstore in early January. Its first selection was. Group members are eager to read both long-challenged and newly challenged works, Joslyn says, and will alternate between the two categories. “The response has been amazing,” she says. “Teachers are glad we’ll have an opportunity to read these books.” In addition, donations have poured in, allowing the book shop to provide free copies of the readings to group participants.
But the current climate, she continues, threatens to stifle which books children and young adults can access. “Trump stirred the pot of open hatred. I was hoping people would step back once he was out of office, but the culture of othering those who are in any way different has become normalized.”created by GLSEN — a national advocacy group focused on LGBTQ issues in K-12 education — comes in.
“We communicate about the student right to read in a series of online workshops,” Rady says, and talk about the 1982 Supreme Court decision in. In that decision, SCOTUS determined that, “Although school boards have a vested interest in promoting respect for social, moral and political community values, their discretionary power is secondary to the transcendent imperative of the First Amendment.”
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