Mon Jul 31, 2023 – 4:51 pm EDT
CAMERON, Missouri (LifeSiteNews) — A Missouri school district is stocking dozens of books containing sexually explicit and obscene content on the shelves of its school libraries, concerned parents who have petitioned the school board to remove the materials told LifeSiteNews.
In an email correspondence with LifeSite, local parent and retired state Missouri State Highway Patrolman Dan Landi highlighted the ongoing months-long effort by local parents to get the Cameron R-1 School District in Missouri to pull some 80 books—mostly in the high school library—which the group of parents says are obscene and inappropriate for students.
Local reporting from March noted that Landi, along with fellow Cameron residents Heath Gilbert and Travis Eldredge (who told LifeSite that Landi “and many others have been the light in the darkness on this matter”) had “spearheaded Cameron’s push to remove explicit materials from school libraries.”
The move is something the My Cameron News Citizen Observer noted is “a small segment of a national effort” to cull explicit content from school libraries and classrooms across the country. The outlet reported that the parents flagged 70 books in the Cameron High School (CHS) library
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