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submitted 6 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

Edmond Public Schools has petitioned the state’s Supreme Court to intervene in a dispute over efforts to ban two national bestselling books

Oklahoma’s State Superintendent Ryan Walters has already made headlines for sending context-free porn to his fellow lawmakers. He’s now accusing one of the school districts under his jurisdiction of supporting the exposure of children to what he describes as “pornography” in schools. What horrendous, degenerate, pornographic display of hedonism is Walters’ administration accusing teachers of hiding in libraries? Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, and Jeannette Walls’s memoir The Glass Castle.

Yesterday, Edmond Public Schools petitioned the state Supreme Court to rule on a threat from the Oklahoma Department of Education, headed by Walters, to remove the two books — or face consequences. The dispute between Walters and the school district is just the latest in a long list of culture war battles staked out by the “anti-woke,” porn-obsessed superintendent.

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[-] GnomeKat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Maybe Oklahoma schools should focus less on porn and focus more on preventing 16 yo trans kids from being brutally attacked and getting their head smashed into the ground repeatedly until they physically could not walk. Maybe they should have called an ambulance instead of waiting for the kid's grandmother to take them to the hospital. Maybe instead of worrying about porn Oklahoma schools should be held responsible for the death of Nex Benedict who died the next day from brain trauma.

Fascists need to be locked up for life

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

You say that as if Oklahoma schools wouldn't go out of their way to encourage that sort of behavior.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Well they only consider one of those things to be harmful to children and for some reason it isn’t the child being murdered

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