{"id":1740559,"date":"2022-11-16T06:06:11","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T11:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1740559"},"modified":"2022-11-16T07:02:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T12:02:51","slug":"michigan-parents-sue-school-board-for-admitting-pornographic-books-into-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michigan-parents-sue-school-board-for-admitting-pornographic-books-into-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Parents Sue School Board For Admitting Pornographic Books Into Schools"},"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\">22<\/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-parents-sue-school-board-for-admitting-pornographic-books-into-schools%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=1740559&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-15-at-12.19.33-PM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>DEARBORN, Mich. \u2014 Dearborn parents are suing a Michigan school district for admitting pornographic books into schools.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dearborn Public School parents served the school board with an intent to sue on Monday night at a Board of Education meeting. After a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/17\/how-much-porn-do-libraries-and-schools-have-to-sponsor-to-get-defunded\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tumultuous<\/a>\u00a0board meeting in October, when hundreds of Muslim and Christian Dearborn parents called for the removal of multiple \u201csexually explicit\u201d books, parents had \u201cno other choice but to retain legal expertise,\u201d said Dearborn resident Mike Hacham.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you are well aware, these parents have expressed to you great concerns regarding books depicting\/describing pornography, pedophilia, and\/or other sexually explicit content in your school library,\u201d the lawsuit reads. \u201cThey are also concerned over your sexual education policy, enhanced by your own denial of their right to \u2018opt-out\u2019 of your district\u2019s sexual education program, in direct violation of Michigan law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The school district launched an internal book review after the October school board meeting. DPS announced Monday that it would approve \u201cThe Lovely Bones\u201d by Alice Sebold and \u201cFlamer\u201d by Mike Curato, and restrict \u201cEleanor &#038; Park\u201d by Rainbow Rowell to high school libraries. The district banned two of the books in question, \u201cRed, White, and Royal Blue\u201d by Casey McQuiston and \u201cPush\u201d by Sapphire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know our rights as parents and we know that right now our rights are being infringed upon,\u201d said mother Stephanie Butler, before she read passages from the book \u201cFlamer,\u201d which includes graphic references to male genitalia and sexual encounters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"Lxtqq4kTpIsB3QMSyv5ZXD14PzgV30uCjEfSPhcIBkiR97mOaTseWGv1dUAwwoCUYXu7lDNnFNKF5V88rncd6YfbQKyHapH2lo\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">GRAPHIC<\/p>\n<p>A parent in Dearborn, MI reads from the pornographic book \u201cFlamer\u201d which is available in her kid\u2019s school. <\/p>\n<p>Reminder that when they call us \u201cbook banners\u201d they\u2019re referring to parents not wanting their kids to read porn like this in school. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/krzD6qT9eL\">pic.twitter.com\/krzD6qT9eL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/1592354513209667585?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Butler told The Federalist that her child checked out \u201cFlamer\u201d at a school library, adding that she would burn the book before returning it to school shelves.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll even pay the library fee,\u201d Butler said.<\/p>\n<p>The district enlisted a team of \u201cmedia specialists\u201d to conduct an internal review process of library books, including specific titles parents brought forth. At the meeting, parents slammed the board for its lack of transparency, asking what criteria the review committee uses to determine if a book is sexually explicit or not.<\/p>\n<p>A district representative said that media specialists had not yet reviewed \u201cAll Boys Aren\u2019t Blue\u201d or \u201cThis Book is Gay\u201d because the team hadn\u2019t read them yet. \u201cAll Boys Aren\u2019t Blue\u201d books discuss sexual encounters, rape, and sexuality, while \u201cThis Book is Gay\u201d is a \u201ccandid, funny, and uncensored exploration of sexuality,\u201d according to its online description.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t get any more explicit than seeing a woman naked with boobs and a crotch,\u201d said Ann Clark, a Dearborn resident and former candidate for Wayne County Commissioner. \u201cWhat is it going to take? What is your definition of explicit? I\u2019m willing to be on a committee to help and we\u2019ll have other parents because it should be a parent-driven committee, not staff. We pay you\u00a0and you\u2019re not listening to us. So in accordance with any corporation, we should fire your ass.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One school board member, Hussein Berry, quoted the 1982 Supreme Court decision<em> Island Trees School District v. Pico<\/em> which determined that officials cannot remove books from schools \u201csimply because they dislike the ideas contained in the books.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSchool boards shouldn\u2019t be making decisions on banning books,\u201d he said. \u201cLast time I checked, parental rights are God-given rights. We respect that. But at the same time, we have to work within the law. We can\u2019t allow people to judge others, judge books, at the expense of others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pico also ruled that public schools can remove \u201cpervasively vulgar\u201d books, which parents pointed out that many neighboring school districts have already done. The Spring Lake Board of Education removed \u201cGender Queer\u201d by Maia Kobabe from school shelves in October, Hamtramck Public Schools announced an internal review of LGBTQ books this week, and Hillsdale County successfully removed some LGBTQ books from the public library. Many other districts nationwide have removed pornographic material from schools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a Christian. These are Muslims. They\u2019re Methodist. I don\u2019t care what religion they are. We\u2019re all here together \u2014 as one community. This is about our children,\u201d Clark said. \u201cThis has to do with children, all children, I don\u2019t care if they\u2019re black, blue, polka dot, or whatever. You\u2019re failing miserably at protecting our children. And we have to fix this. We as a community are going to do something about it because we have the power of the people.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Haley Strack is an Investigative Fellow at Parents Defending Education and a student at Hillsdale College studying politics and journalism. 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