{"id":1740101,"date":"2022-11-15T17:33:18","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T22:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1740101"},"modified":"2022-11-15T17:33:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T22:33:21","slug":"michigan-school-district-removes-pornographic-books-after-muslim-community-outrage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michigan-school-district-removes-pornographic-books-after-muslim-community-outrage\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan School District Removes Pornographic Books After Muslim Community Outrage"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmichigan-school-district-removes-pornographic-books-after-muslim-community-outrage%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1740101&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A Michigan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/education\">school<\/a> district is pulling several pornographic books from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/conservatives-flip-school-boards-in-wave-of-education-wins\">school<\/a> libraries after the local Muslim community expressed outrage.<\/p>\n<p>Dearborn Public Schools <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/local\/wayne-county\/2022\/11\/15\/dearborn-school-district-controversial-books-keep-remove\/69648667007\/\">announced<\/a> Monday it will remove two books, keep one book, and restrict another book to high school students only.<\/p>\n<p>The two pulled books are \u201cPush\u201d by Sapphire, which is about a\u00a0girl who is sexually abused by her father, and \u201cRed, White and Royal Blue\u201d by Casey McQuiston, an\u00a0LGBT romance with several sexually explicit passages. The books were ruled inappropriate for high schoolers and will be removed from school libraries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Lovely Bones\u201d by Alice Sebold, which is about\u00a0the rape and murder of a young girl, will remain in the libraries for high school students only.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEleanor and Park\u201d by Rainbow Rowell, which is about a teenage romance and includes\u00a0profanity and domestic abuse, was ruled inappropriate for middle schoolers but appropriate for high schoolers. Copies of the book will be pulled from middle schools but remain on high school library shelves.<\/p>\n<p>Two books are still under review, \u201cAll Boys Aren\u2019t Blue\u201d by Jason Reynolds and \u201cThis Book is Gay\u201d by Juno Dawson. The books were previously available to students through the ebook service Sora, but the ebook service is currently disabled for students.<\/p>\n<p>The district also reviewed \u201cFlamer\u201d by Mike Curato, a graphic novel about a gay boy that includes several sexually explicit scenes.\u00a0\u201cFlamer\u201d was not part of the initial books challenge from a parent but has been deemed appropriate for high school students and will remain on the shelves.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, a district mother read an extremely sexually explicit passage from \u201cFlamer\u201d at a school board meeting.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Parents in Dearborn, Michigan, are revolting against pornographic books in school libraries.<\/p>\n<p>A mom reads a passage from the book &#8220;Flamed&#8221;: &#8220;We&#8217;re each bustin&#8217; a load in this bottle. If you don&#8217;t cum, you have to drink it.&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2KJGPTjpHZ\">pic.twitter.com\/2KJGPTjpHZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@realchrisrufo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1592352306598928384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A parent officially challenged the seven books last summer.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, parents in the Muslim community showed up to a school board meeting to protest the\u00a0sexually explicit\u00a0books remaining in school libraries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKeep Your Dirty Books In The Closet,\u201d read one protester\u2019s sign. \u201cQuit Grooming Students! You Sexually Perverted ANIMALS,\u201d read another sign.<\/p>\n<p>Many Muslim parents also showed up to Monday\u2019s school board meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to be at every single meeting for the next 20 years if that\u2019s needed. I\u2019m not going to allow these books to be read to our kids,\u201d one Islamic man <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/loganwashburn76\/status\/1592326182053507072\">said<\/a> at Monday\u2019s meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sexually explicit material in these books was just a catalyst that brought forward broader concerns about the state of public education today and where it\u2019s at, and that the traditional partnership between parents and public education has been compromised,\u201d Hassan Chami, a Muslim parent and local political activist,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/11\/15\/school-removes-multiple-books-following-muslim-community-complaints\/\">told<\/a> The Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat you\u2019re seeing now is a grassroots movement of concerned parents trying to reassert their right to direct education for their children,\u201d Chami\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p>The books were the first ones reviewed under the district\u2019s new\u00a0Guidelines for the Selection and Review of Media Materials, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/local\/wayne-county\/2022\/11\/15\/dearborn-school-district-controversial-books-keep-remove\/69648667007\/\">according<\/a> to the district.<\/p>\n<p>A district form now allows parents to prevent their children from checking out individual titles or even any books.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith roughly half a million books in our school libraries, we realize the likelihood that there could be a few books that were added over the years that parents and staff agree should not be there,\u201d Superintendent Glenn Maleyko <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/local\/wayne-county\/2022\/11\/15\/dearborn-school-district-controversial-books-keep-remove\/69648667007\/\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, we want to assure our parents that those books are few and far between and that, overall, our libraries provide a wide range of age-appropriate materials to encourage students to strengthen their academic skills and build a love of reading,\u201d the superintendent said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe appreciate the parents who are working with us to address concerns about books in our school libraries,\u201d School Board President Roxanne McDonald <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/local\/wayne-county\/2022\/11\/15\/dearborn-school-district-controversial-books-keep-remove\/69648667007\/\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Michigan school district is pulling several pornographic books from school libraries after the local Muslim community expressed outrage. Dearborn Public Schools announced Monday it will remove two books, keep one book, and restrict another book to high school students only. The two pulled books are \u201cPush\u201d by Sapphire, which is about a\u00a0girl who is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":1740104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1740101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1740101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1740104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1740101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1740101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1740101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}