Thursday, October 26, 2023

What's the matter with Iowa? Kimmi the Clown's censorship binge

 
Headline:  Little Village, 10/25/2023
The impact of the book banning provisions in SF 496, which Gov. Kim Reynolds signed into law in May, is becoming clearer as the Des Moines Register continues to update its database of books pulled from classrooms and school libraries. 
“More than 1,000 books have already been removed from 39 public school districts,” the Register reported on Wednesday. But that just represents the number of books removed in the 12 percent of Iowa’s 326 school districts that have responded to the paper’s open records requests so far[emphasis added]
SF 496 requires public school districts to remove all books with “descriptions or visual depictions of a sex act” except for approved science or health class texts. It also prohibits “any program, curriculum, test, survey, questionnaire, promotion or instruction” referencing sexual identity or gender orientation in primary schools.

This is the book that really has the Iowa GOP's undies in a bundle.


Plenty of copies in the South Central Library system, in both print and electronic formats.


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