Comments on: Escambia School Board Votes To Remove 18 Books. Here’s The List.

By: Ben Kaiser

Ben Kaiser — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 00:31:22 +0000

I searched for Lexicon. The author got his own book banned to increase sales. Milk and Honey contains different themes, but one is how to deal with sexual assault. The God of Small Things has some graphic sexual language. This list is a mixed bag. Books that could be important to students should be kept separate perhaps, instead of banning them. In the time of the internet, banning a book seems pointless.

By: Tim B.

Tim B. — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 17:01:34 +0000

These books aren’t banned… They were removed…

You can’t still buy these from Amazon…

YOU want YOUR kids to have them… Buy them for them…

The schools job is to educate them…

Not raise them… That’s the parents job…

By: Dhg

Dhg — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 02:37:23 +0000

Book bans are wrong. It’s a library, treat as such. As to what a child or teen reads, how about the parents step up and do their responsibility to the level required and not take choices from others.

By: Niknak50

Niknak50 — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 12:52:44 +0000

I approve of the books being removed. However, kids are looking at the same stuff on their phones everyday .

By: mnon

mnon — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 12:38:48 +0000

If you can’t read excerpts out loud during board meetings or PTA meetings because it’s too graphic then it doesn’t belong in our kid’s schools, period! Parental freedom is buying the paperback book on Amazon for $10 if you want your kid reading the book. It’s not the community or tax payers responsibility to make sure your kid has access to pornography at school.

By: Friend of the Library

Friend of the Library — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 23:57:33 +0000

I think that if you provide a wide variety of age appropriate books, students can enjoy all genres. If their parents allow them to read books that are not provided by the public school system, they can take them to the public library and they can get them there. The school library should provide only books necessary for school related projects.

By: Don Cooper

Don Cooper — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 17:55:01 +0000

we need every book that was ever written in every library in the United States if not then I would call it book banning

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 17:18:01 +0000

Well, the scenes depicted in some of the books are really bad.

What about this one “Two young ladies got their father drunk, raped him while he was unconscious and got pregnant by him”.

Wouldn’t you ban a book with stories like that from schools ???

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 16:18:43 +0000

We need to get ALL books out of the libraries!!
We dare not let people have the freedom to decide for themselves.

(And then change the name because libraries are supposed to have books.)

I wonder why the concept of governmentally enforced ignorance brings out the sarcasm in me.

By: Not You

Not You — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 15:30:12 +0000

Why aren’t those screaming for Parental freedom in education policies for book bans? It shouldn’t be the government deciding what books my kids read. That’s for me to decide. If you don’t want your kids reading those books, don’t let them. That’s parental freedom.