School district slaps warning labels on books with LGBTQ characters [View all]
A school district in Florida has added parental warning labels to over 100 books touching on everything from race to LGBTQ issues, including a children’s book called Everywhere Babies.
“This Advisory Notice shall serve to inform you that this book has been identified by some community members as unsuitable for students,” the label, placed on the inside front cover of books in the Collier County Public School libraries, reads. “This book will also be identified in the Destiny system with the same notation. The decision as to whether this book is suitable or unsuitable shall be the decision of the parent(s) who has the right to oversee his/her child’s education consistent with state law.”
“These warning labels are like something you might see on a cigarette package,” said Jonathan Friedman, director of free expression and education programs at PEN America. “They’re treating it like a controlled, alarming substance. This is literature for young people.”
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According to NBC News, the list of 110 books featuring the label overlaps significantly with a list of books that conservative group Florida Citizens Alliance inquired about in a December email to Collier County Public Schools.
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