PRHS Project LIT Book Club

Pine Ridge High School Project LIT Community Book Club

[Florida Freedom to Read Project @FLFreedomRead]

Students, educators, & parents in FL are desperately in need of change during 2024 Legislative Session (opening today).

The Freedom to Learn Act filed in both the Florida House and Senate seeks to correct many of the unnecessary censorship issues caused by past legislation.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Donald Trump is hit with more devastating news as a prominent Democratic Senator comes out in favor of banning Trump from the ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment — which bans insurrectionists from holding office ever again.

In a bombshell new interview, Senator Tim Kaine declared that “there’s a powerful argument to be made” for banning Trump under the 14th Amendment” because “the language of the amendment is specific: If you give aid and comfort to those who engage in an insurrection against the Constitution of the United States — it doesn’t say against the United States, it says against the Constitution. In my view, the attack on the Capitol that day was designed for a particular purpose — and that was to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power as is laid out in the Constitution.”

Senator Tim Kaine couldn’t be more right. Trump fits the intention of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment like a glove — so the Constitution demands that he be exiled from our political system.

Senator Kaine is now the highest profile Democrat to throw his weight behind banning Trump, the latest sign that the idea is gaining steam on Capitol Hill.

Please retweet and ❤️ if you think that Trump MUST be banned from running — and consider joining the growing exodus to Tribel, a woke new Twitter competitor that banned Trump for life and is exploding in popularity because Elon Musk banned Tribel’s Twitter account — but he forgot to ban this link to download the new Tribel app: https://t.co/HnJzSKj4Hp

[PEN America @PENamerica]

Photos of covered shelves in @ecpsfl libraries are raising concerns among parents and citizens.

One parent says it’s “incredibly ironic” that organizations such as @Moms4Liberty are touting book removals as “parental choice” since she wasn’t given one.
https://t.co/JW4W1o1Ha4

[PRHS Project LIT Book Club @GetLitPrhs]

@Lyricalswordz Maybe we could start teaching the beneficial skills Jewish folk learned in concentration camps next.

[Florida Freedom to Read Project @FLFreedomRead]

What’s NOT in the AA History standards is also important.

Educators can have their certification challenged by any parent that believes they “instructed” on topics of racism/discrimination in an age inappropriate way. And “age-appropriate” is defined by what is in the standards.

[Society of Secret Library Friends @sslibfriends]

"The conversations we're having at an administrative level of how to protect our staff in the library are something I don't think I would've ever considered five years ago.” https://t.co/p8L6M9D60D

[Kristin Pekoll @KPekoll]

That’s between me and my kids. @LibraryComic #IntellectualFreedom

[PRHS Project LIT Book Club @GetLitPrhs]

@abmack33 I call them nasty

[PRHS Project LIT Book Club @GetLitPrhs]

YES!

[Protect Democracy @protctdemocracy]

As one parent of an Escambia County Public Schools student said:

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

In 1959, police were called to a segregated library when a Black 9-year-old boy trying to check out books refused to leave, after being told the library was not for Black people.

The boy, Ronald McNair, went on to became an astronaut. The library is also now named after him.

[PRHS Project LIT Book Club @GetLitPrhs]

Ridiculous

[Book Riot @BookRiot]

Hoopla and Overdrive are now banned for those under 18 in the state of Mississippi, thanks to a new law which took effect July 1.

https://t.co/NDSIFO0Dmm

[PRHS Project LIT Book Club @GetLitPrhs]

@seanmarnold Correct

[Florida Freedom to Read Project @FLFreedomRead]

Censorship is happening in FL.

@veronikellymars of Book Riot gave a wonderful explanation of what causes soft and self-censorship last week in her Literary Activism newsletter (you should subscribe), and we wanted to create a visual to expand on her definition.

[Florida Freedom to Read Project @FLFreedomRead]

New info out of Manatee Schools. The list they share online does not tell the whole story of how the restrictions/removals came to be and what’s still to come.

You can see their list here:
https://t.co/9FRngh5UUP

[PRHS Project LIT Book Club @GetLitPrhs]

Just because race is mentioned does not make the lesson CRT

[Jonathan Friedman 📚 @jonfreadom]

The OK superintendent of schools says the Tulsa Race Massacre shld be taught without reference to race, or else that would be "CRT". Just the latest effort to pressure educators to peddle warped versions of history that omit, er, critical details. #EdScare https://t.co/TUBsqarSXl

[Marty Taylor @marty_taylorr]

In 1984. Recent law school grad Greg Abbott was jogging in the affluent Houston, Texas suburb of River Oaks. When he jogged past Divorce attorney Roy Moore's home. A giant oak tree broke and tragically fell on Greg Abbott. Crushing his spine and leaving him paralyzed. Uninsured and unemployed. Abbott had no health insurance. He had over $81,000 in hospital bills. He sued. Abbott got his hospital bills paid and received over $5.7 million dollars in payouts from Moore's home insurance and the tree services company who failed to detect the tree was rotten inside. Still to this day Greg Abbott gets a monthly check that includes cost of living increases each year. And will receive a check for the rest of his life. When Abbott was on the Texas Supreme court . He voted to decrease the amount of money someone in a similar situation could receive. Gregg Abbott supported capping non medical damages in cases like his at $250,000. A reward like the multi million dollars in payouts Abbott received and still receives each and every month till the day he dies would be impossible today. Of course these bills were crafted to not be retroactive. So they do not affect Greg Abbotts payments. Gregg Abbott does everything he can to hurt us Texans. While he laughs all the way to the bank every month with his very generous monthly check that he happily denies to another Texan who is injured in the same way as Abbott was. It goes without saying. This is another example of a GOP hypocrite. OK for me but not for any other Texan. That should be Gov. Greg Abbotts theme song for his life. What a despicable man who cares nothing about anyone's pain and suffering. He got his and to Abbot and the GOP. That's all that matters. @NewBlueUSA #DemVoice1

[Florida Freedom to Read Project @FLFreedomRead]

“The complaint said the Lake County school district had “cited no legitimate pedagogical reason for its decision.” The lawsuit went on to argue that…‘Tango’ was restricted for illegitimate, narrowly partisan and political reasons.” https://t.co/Upj2EUaGgu

[Florida Freedom to Read Project @FLFreedomRead]

More evidence of the chilling effect of HB1069 - the new law that goes into effect on 7/1/23.

@OCPSnews has advised their media specialists doing summer approvals of classroom libraries to immediately reject books for any depiction or description of “sexual conduct.”

[PEN America @PENamerica]

🧵Ta-Nehisi Coates’ acclaimed memoir Between the World and Me was removed from an advanced placement course in South Carolina after students complained it made them feel “ashamed to be Caucasian."