Obviously school libraries - especially at the K-6 level - should have different guidelines than public libraries.
I mean, that’s literally what I’ve been arguing the whole time… but nope… people are like “you have to let kids read erotica!!! Stopping schools from giving smut to kids is wrong!!! parents who set boundaries are bad parents!!!”
100%. I think it’s quite reasonable to have boundaries in school libraries. I bet nearly everyone would agree with that, except for the online free speech maximalists who probably don’t really take that position IRL anyway…
Where that line is will obviously be something that people differ on. To be fair, I’m not all that familiar with the line of books you are talking about, but if they are as you describe, I doubt too many are going to back them, at least at the lower grades.
I mean, that’s literally what I’ve been arguing the whole time… but nope… people are like “you have to let kids read erotica!!! Stopping schools from giving smut to kids is wrong!!! parents who set boundaries are bad parents!!!”
100%. I think it’s quite reasonable to have boundaries in school libraries. I bet nearly everyone would agree with that, except for the online free speech maximalists who probably don’t really take that position IRL anyway…
Where that line is will obviously be something that people differ on. To be fair, I’m not all that familiar with the line of books you are talking about, but if they are as you describe, I doubt too many are going to back them, at least at the lower grades.