Petition seeks court order protecting kids from state-promoted pornography in schools

[Elderberry]

WND 8/31/2024

'At no time has the U.S. Supreme Court held that the First Amendment protects the inclusion of this type of sexually explicit material' in libraries

The American Center for Law and Justice is stepping up its fight to protect kids in New York schools from pornography that leftist librarians are insisting on adding to their collections.

The organization has filed a petition in New York state court asking to overturn a decision from state education officials providing those books to children.

"As we explain in our petition, both federal and state laws emphasize the important role and compelling interest of public schools in protecting children from exposure to lewd and obscene content. Public schools and boards of education owe a duty of care to both parents and students to ensure that the curriculum and other materials provided to students are free of pornography and are age appropriate," the ACLJ reported.

"Parents should be able to trust that the books selected by their children's librarians do not contain pornography or sexually explicit material, excessive profanity, and other lewd or vulgar content."

This case is based on a dispute involving the Clyde-Savannah Central District school board, which first decided to take the sexually explicit books out, but then summarily restored them.

The ACLJ reported the school librarian and others had argued, "erroneously," that children are entitled to the sexually explicit content as a matter of law.

More: https://www.wnd.com/2024/08/petition-seeks-court-order-protecting-kids-from-state-promoted-pornography-in-schools/

[Free Vulcan]

However, both state and local education officials took another course, claiming that schools have no duty to protect students, and the fight actually is over the "freedom" for students and teachers.

State officials claimed schools can put books in their library, "no matter how obscene or inappropriate they may be so that they can expose children to diverse views."

Gonna say it's 50/50 whether they win or not,  but this highlights the typical stance of the woke left: 'We can jump on both sides of the line and are right both times, even if we contradict ourselves. We are the holy priesthood, law be damned.'

Problem is schools boast regularly about protecting kids from all sorts of things, even removing American flags because of potential offense, but then want to completely reverse that policy based on their sacred ideology.

[Smokin Joe]

We have books in school libraries that would have been kept behind (and under) the counter in bookstores when I was in my teens, if they were not banned outright.