Many of my CA educator colleagues have expressed the belief that the mania for book banning is unlikely to happen here. After all, it’s California: free thought, free speech, etc
Check out this report from Orange County.
Where efforts to capture local school boards and are effective, it can happen. School systems and libraries have existing policies for materials review. These efforts are about circumventing existing policies by fiat.
@ZingerLearns: "Shaken by this and moved to action" - well said!
The general "inattention" to local school politics is understandable when local school politics managed to stay somewhat protected from partisanship (never fully, of course). But those days are gone, and these efforts go directly toward delegitimizing specific youth and families who equally deserve to be served safely and well by public institutions.