Scholastic Under Fire for Allowing Schools to Opt Out of ‘Diverse Books’ for Book Fairs
Scholastic Under Fire for Allowing Schools to Opt Out of ‘Diverse Books’ for Book Fairs
www.themarysue.com Scholastic Under Fire for Allowing Schools to Opt Out of ‘Diverse Books’ for Book Fairs
Scholastic has been accused of bending to right-wing pressure, making having diverse books optional for school book fairs.
Article by TheMarySue: Publishing giant Scholastic has made it easy for white supremacists in the Southern US to censor book fairs, by creating a category of "diverse books" that Scholastic will not send to book fairs if a organizers opt out.
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Could also be to protect the organizers in that state. Teachers are being arrested for having banned books and it's not improbable to think a teacher might get arrested if the book fair they sponsored had banned books.
In the end, itll be the children who suffer unfortunately.