President Joe Biden has sicced the U.S. Education Department on state and local school officials who want to keep pornographic materials away from students.
Through its Office for Civil Rights, Biden’s Department of Education is set to name a new coordinator who will “address the growing threat that book bans pose for the civil rights of students,” the White House said in a statement last week, according to Fox News.
According to White House, domestic policy adviser Neera Tanden will train local school officials on how efforts to remove questionable books or materials from school libraries “may violate federal civil rights laws if they create a hostile work environment, hostile environment for students.”
“This move by the Biden administration is counter to parents and activists who have complained about sexually explicit and graphic LGBTQI+ content in school and public libraries and sought to remove those materials,” Fox News noted.
“Book banning erodes our democracy, removes vital resources for student learning, and can contribute to stigma and isolation that many communities face,” Tanden said.
Despite claims of left-wing groups like PEN America or the American Library Association, no books have been “banned” anywhere. Parents are free to purchase the books for their children to read at home.
Original Article: https://nworeport.me/biden-admin-seeks-to-fight-back-against-parents-on-sexually-explicit-materials-in-schools/
