A school board immediately revokes access to a long list of books in response to a thinly-supported objection, usually from 1 person.

Board members don't:
❎ read the books
❎ follow policies
❎ say how long these removals will last

It's called book banning.
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Boards say all the time books are just 'under review'. That's what a board member said last week in Beaufort, SC, where they've recently removed access to 99 books based on a single complaint.

In Duval in FL, board says 176 books are just "under review"... since January. There was no official challenge. District ordered the books removed from classrooms. The books are about non-white and LGBTQ+ identities. Teachers and students can't use them.
bookriot.com/duval-county-public-schools-book-removal/

"No book ban occurred in Walton County", said a FL superintendent in APRIL when he ordered 58 books off shelves, then discovered they only had 24. "I haven't read one paragraph of the books at this time", he said. No word that review of the books has begun

School boards are elected state actors. When they order books off shelves en masse they're exercising control over what all can read. That so many of these removals have been politically motivated & lacking basic adherence to process, is alarming

It's called book banning 📚📚📚