The Escambia County School District, located in the Florida panhandle, has removed several dictionaries from its library shelves over concerns that making the dictionaries available to students would violate Florida law. The American Heritage Children's Dictionary, Webster's Dictionary for Students, and Merriam-Webster's Elementary Dictionary are among
  • BlitzFitz @lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Is no one else looking at this line the school district is at this point just pulling every possible book that could match the description of the law in purpose to make a point?

    One teacher made a complaint about a couple of books so they said fine, well just remove everything else that this bill could possibly touch. Just to prove how ambiguous and far stretching this law can go?

    Of course they shouldn’t pull a dictionary but it matches the description. This is to test the law.

    • piecat@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Pulling the dictionary accomplishes what they want: a dumber future generation.

      Pull the Bible, that’s what riles them up

      • BlitzFitz @lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 months ago

        The did that too, and conservative figures books.

        Article lays it all out pretty well