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Book Bans & Free Speech (with Suzanne Nossel)

Stay Tuned with Preet

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The Lawsuit in Escambia County Florida

Penguin Random House is an actual party in the lawsuit. More than 100 book removal sparked by a single individual teacher who filled out forms handwritten forms objecting to all these books made clear she hadn't read most of them parroted language from objections filed elsewhere in the country. They also had a district commission comprised of experts, a parent, a librarian and educator charged with looking at and reading cover to cover each of the books that was challenged. The school board persistently overruled them deciding that you know notwithstanding the opinions of their own designated experts that these books were taken away.

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