Over the past year or so, books were banned at least 2,500 times by more than 130 school districts across 30-plus states, according to the analysis.
Large majorities of Americans oppose book bans — at least 70% of both Democrats and Republicans, according to one poll. So why have so many books been removed from schools and libraries?
The alliance has compiled a list of 58 books in Florida's school libraries they deem"pornographic" and has called on Florida's school districts to remove them. The group also pushes for the elimination of sex education in K-12 schools. While Flaugh said he's glad that school districts in Florida are working on how to"protect children" from books with what he said is obscene material, he added that most of the districts aren't going far enough.
In some cases individual community members who do not have children in public schools are placing complaints to school districts. One of those Florida residents is 69-year-old Dale Galiano who submitted all of the St. Lucie County School district's 17 book challenges in the 2021-22 school year. The ALA on Friday published a separate preliminary analysis documenting attempts to ban or restrict library resources between Jan. 1 and Aug. 31, 2022. Seventy percent of the 681 attempts documented during that period targeted books also listed in PEN America's report, the analysis found.
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