Mon Jan 23, 2023 – 6:11 pm EST
TALLAHASSEE, Florida (LifeSiteNews) – The Florida State Board of Education adopted a rule last week that mandates school librarians and teachers with classroom libraries receive annual training to purge their shelves from sexually explicit content and content related to Critical Race Theory (CRT).
The rule, adopted Wednesday, holds that librarians undergo training to keep books and instructional materials whose contents could be considered “harmful to children” from school libraries. The training also holds that parents should be involved in “all aspects” of the selection of material for school libraries. The training was written by the state Department of Education.
Librarians would be trained to be sure that school libraries contain materials appropriate for all ages that would have access to them, that the material should not contain “unsolicited theories that may lead to student indoctrination,” or that “race is inherently superior to another race.”
Further, the training instructs librarians to “err on the side of caution” while selecting material for school libraries. A video version of the training holds that if one would be uncomfortable reading the material aloud in public, then the material should not be in
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