Utah students can no longer bring personal copies of banned books to school [Lucky thing SLC reversed its ban on the Bible]

[essentialsaltes]

There are already certain things Utah schools prohibit students from bringing to campus — like certain electronics, vaping devices or rollerblades.

Now, according to updated guidance from the Utah State Board of Education, banned books have been added to that list.

It would be up to individual schools and districts to create policies about how these situations are handled. Sauthoff said the state’s guidance merely encourages schools to have those conversations and to involve parents.

There are currently 15 books banned statewide under a 2024 law. Individual school districts and charter schools have also banned additional books at the local level.

Bible banned in Utah school district

Bible Banned From Utah School District SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Good Book is being treated like a bad book in Utah after a parent frustrated by efforts to ban materials from schools convinced a suburban district that some Bible verses were too vulgar or violent for younger children. The...

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[SimplyMe]

To correct the thread title, SLC never banned the Bible. That would be the Davis School District, which is an area about half an hour north of Salt Lake, near where Hill AFB is located.

 

[PloverWing]

The wise student looks at banned books lists to find good reading material.

I haven't read any of Sarah Maas' novels yet, but if they've made it onto a banned books list, I'll have to check them out.

 

[ozso]

The only books I remember taking to school, were school books. Which was more than enough to lug around.

 

[SimplyMe]

The wise student looks at banned books lists to find good reading material.

I haven't read any of Sarah Maas' novels yet, but if they've made it onto a banned books list, I'll have to check them out.

I really liked the Throne of Glass series and there are a lot of good reviews for the Court of Thorns and Roses series.

 

[RileyG]

I haven’t read any of those books. Maybe I should check them out?

 

[RileyG]

The only books I remember taking to school, were school books. Which was more than enough to lug around.

Did your school have a library for personal reading?

 

[ozso]

Did your school have a library for personal reading?

Yes.

 

[RileyG]

Yes.

Did they ban any books? I’m pretty sure my high school library had several so called banned books.

 

[ozso]

Did they ban any books? I’m pretty sure my high school library had several so called banned books.

I think back then it was just common sense that certain books didn't belong in school libraries.

 

[RileyG]

I think back then it was just common sense that certain books didn't belong in school libraries.

Ah! Gotcha!

 

[BCP1928]

I think back then it was just common sense that certain books didn't belong in school libraries.

LOL! Back in the 50s when I was in high school the biology classroom got a set of big roll-down charts showing all aspects of human anatomy, in various views and cross sections. When the Dean of Girls found out that one of the charts showed the male reproductive organs she had it cut out, because girls weren't supposed to know what they looked like until they got married. MAGA!

 

[ozso]

LOL! Back in the 50s when I was in high school the biology classroom got a set of big roll-down charts showing all aspects of human anatomy, in various views and cross sections. When the Dean of Girls found out that one of the charts showed the male reproductive organs she had it cut out, because girls weren't supposed to know what they looked like until they got married. MAGA!

"Dean of Girls" doesn't sound like the public school system.

 

[BCP1928]

"Dean of Girls" doesn't sound like the public school system.

That was a public high school I attended for a short time. Catholic high schools generally weren't co-ed back in those days. I don't know what the girls called their dean. "Sister" probably.

 

[Pommer]

I think back then it was just common sense that certain books didn't belong in school libraries.

I don’t think that The Anarchist’s Cookbook ever made it onto many shelves.

Everyone (almost everyone), agrees that there are books that don’t belong in school libraries and we’re going to argue about what those books should be, constantly, like since forever…This is “normal politics”.

This isn’t anything new, every generation has this battle, this time, it’s our turn!
(Attempting to settle things once and for all misses the whole point of having a government, (or school-district) in the first place!

 

[ozso]

I don’t think that The Anarchist’s Cookbook ever made it onto many shelves.

Everyone (almost everyone), agrees that there are books that don’t belong in school libraries and we’re going to argue about what those books should be, constantly, like since forever…This is “normal politics”.

This isn’t anything new, every generation has this battle, this time, it’s our turn!
(Attempting to settle things once and for all misses the whole point of having a government, (or school-district) in the first place!

A good litmus test is of what's acceptable, is whether or not a parent can read out loud from the book at a school board meeting, without being told to stop because the content is too obscene.

There's lots of youtube videos of just that, which I can't post of course. School boards greenlight books for the children's library that they can't stand being read out loud to them.

Furthermore, probably the only books with pornographic content they've allowed, are the ones with an LGBTQ+ theme.

 

[The IbanezerScrooge]

"Dean of Girls" doesn't sound like the public school system.

I am 30ish years younger than BCP and my public junior and highschools had separate deans of boys and girls.

 

[RileyG]

A good litmus test is of what's acceptable, is whether or not a parent can read out loud from the book at a school board meeting, without being told to stop because the content is too obscene.

There's lots of youtube videos of just that, which I can't post of course. School boards greenlight books for the children's library that they can't stand being read out loud to them.

Would that also include classics such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird (which is often required to read in high school)?

I do agree, plenty of books can be very obscene.

 

[ozso]

I am 30ish years younger than BCP and my public junior and highschools had separate deans of boys and girls.

Must be an east cost thing.

 

[ozso]

Would that also include classics such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird (which is often required to read in high school)?

I do agree, plenty of books can be very obscene.

No, those books were banned by PC liberals because they contain the N word. What I'm talking about are books written specifically for children that contain erotica.

Go to youtube and look up: SHOCKING MOMENT: John Kennedy Reads Graphic Quotes From Childrens' Books At Senate Hearing.