...to the local school board story:

There was a meeting last night apparently, where the subject was discussed.

As a matter of reference, the firm in question is the Independence Law Center. They describe themselves as a "public interest civil rights law firm" who is wholly "funded through tax-deductible contributions", hence all its work is pro bono. Their mission is stated as "to defend human life at all stages and defend the right of the people to freely exercise their religion as well as all the other First Amendment freedoms that depend on that first freedom." whatever the eff that bundle of incredibly poorly phrased semantics really means. Make your own interpretation but it scares the hell out of me. Basically, they are a legal arm of the fundamentalist Christians as organised in bunches like Moms for Liberty.

It didn't go well for the new MFL members of the board. They, the ILC, and their proposed new policy on books got pretty well beasted by the rest of the board, including the statement that the whole thing was a solution looking for a problem, support was then expressed for the current administrative and teaching atmosphere, and the incredibly sensible statement that it was folly to try to believe kids were coming to school looking for books of an intolerable nature when the reality is that kid would far sooner have pulled out his phone and found far more impressive smut far more readily.

There still is sanity after all. I hope that sanity is strong enough to stand!

Good for them!