I wanted to share
this article, "What is Take Back the Classroom?" from Kelly Jensen's
Book Riot. It's an interesting look at yet another unprofessional online book review site. It's something to be aware of as it makes it much easier for those with a "vested interest" to seek challenges. It basically does the work for those people. It has an index of schools within each state (scroll to the bottom of the article), and then it breaks down what "inappropriate" books your school has and then flags them under different categories. This is all run by volunteers. For example, my high school library has 102 "inappropriate books," and nearly all of them are labeled as "sexually explicit" for simple things such as using the F word to indicate the act. It also incorrectly states that these books meet the legal threshold for "pervasively vulgar," which would mean they could be removed under the law. The court has never defined what that term means, yet this group seems to have figured it out. The other books are "red flag" warnings, and surprisingly (not) those books are all by or about LGBTQ+ or people of color.