I will never understand the hateful obsession with this book. Velshi is highlighting so many banned books and their authors and I’m just jaw dropped. These people are just about on my last nerve.

When I saw one list of "banned" books, I remember many of them from my high school English class, classics that my middle-aged Catholic teacher thought were important. And now Shakespeare?? We studied one play every single year in high school (took two semesters in college) and when I was a kid at summer camp there was a local Shakespeare festival nearby and my group of girls, early teens, were allowed to go - we saw three plays that summer. I remember "Richard III," "Othello" and only remember that the third was a comedy. It was considered educational. And we also had a theater at that camp and one summer we performed "The Diary of Anne Frank."

Put a stop to plays that offend their sensibilities so no one can enjoy the experience. Because, that’s what they do to protect us. 😡

And it's not even modern stuff, Shakespeare has been considered iconic for centuries. And The "classics" we read were not new at the time, let alone now. It makes no sense to me that after all these years that what was previously considered great literature is now "offensive." Life can often be offensive and that is something that everyone needs to learn to deal with or they're in for one big shock.

..educational and it is all still great literature.

These idiots'...idiocy... doesn't change that.

By the time we had read and discussed this this book in class, it had changed my views of the world. One of the best lessons I had in high school. I was 15 years old. Side note: My parents did not storm the school demanding that the book be banned. My Mother read the book at home and she and I talked about it at home as we followed the school discussions.

It's classic and iconic and has been considered important for generations. It's about life. And my parents never questioned what I was reading in school, either. One "banned" classic that I remember reading was "Catcher in the Rye" and my mother said she remembered reading that in school as well. These classics contain important life lessons, why would today's parents (or politicians) want to protect this generation from that??

And then talk about it, the whole purpose of the assignment would be to open our perspectives ..the whole reason for education, imo. These people say they believe in choice but it’s their choices or nothing at all. I’m glad to see the push back in a few of our counties here..and I’m in Florida!

And I agree that it's good to see the pushback, parents need to be proactive in supporting the teachers. Who is doing the "banning" and what are their qualifications for deciding what teachers teach and what other parents' kids are allowed to learn??

My parents’ attitude was the teacher was always right even if I complained. They were respected and we had better behave. They checked our homework and both of them worked. I’m pretty sure they would have opposed what’s going on these days.

My mother in particular kept up with what was going on at school, she was "room mother" when we were in elementary school, knew the teachers and chaperoned on class trips. And I can remember complaining to my father when I was at boarding school and, of course, he sided with the teachers/class counselors. My father in particular expected me to do what I was supposed to even when I rebelled. He told me once that he got along in the Navy, so I should be able to get along in school.

I was reminded that I wasn’t in a popularity contest and my role was to study hard. My dad was a Marine. Damn, Rhia, we were really very fortunate daughters. I would not have wanted it any other way, for sure.

So I went to different schools which was rough. But my Dad always drove me to school on the first day and I remember one time he neglected to turn and I asked him where we were going. And he said "Aren't you in high school?" And I said "Daddy, I'm 10."

How fucking DARE those antisemitic, picklefaced Klanner PRUDES dictate to any other adult or their children what can and cannot be read. I would love to see these fucking NAZIS dragged before a public session of the library governing board or the school board and quizzed on every single book they want to ban, with huge amounts of scorn and ridicule heaped upon their empty heads as it becomes abundantly clearn very few, if any, of the targeted books had been read by any of the NAZIS.

Anyone who attends these meetings, and we all should if we can possibly get there, needs to call these diseased assholes for what they really are.

These cockroaches need strong light, then they'll scurry away to the dank and foul places they call home.

This "book banning" movement is something that we'd read about in some archaic bizarro world of the distant past or see in some disturbing horror-type movie of an authoritarian future, not something that could possibly be happening in the modern world of today.

is check IDs and stop admitting anyone who lives outside the area.

You and I both know that these meetings that erupt into RWNJ disruption and chants are not all residents of the district or they'd be a little more concerned with the kids and a lot less concerned with religious and political dogma.