School Climate: The Issue May Be You By Peter DeWitt

School Climate: The Issue May Be You

By Peter DeWitt on July 24, 2014 7:39 AM
Ed Week

This blog is co-authored by Peter DeWitt and Jonathan Cohen. Jonathan is the Director of the National School Climate Center.

The other day I heard some stories about book banning in schools. Book banning in 2014. Yup, it still happens. Unfortunately, one was LGBT related. Apparently, the school district didn't like that there was a lesbian character at the center of the story...because there must not be gay students in that school, and those students will probably never come in contact with a gay student or family.

So much for college and career ready...

Other times banning is not as obvious. It does not make the newspapers or hit the news media outlets. It's much, much more quiet without any fanfare. School librarians, because of an unsupportive school leader, choose not to buy books because they know they will be considered "controversial" for one reason or another. It's called self-censorship.

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