This month, Douglas Lord, president of the Connecticut Library Association said that the association is aware of an estimated 40 challenges.ĭouglas Lord, President of Connecticut Library Association and Director of Cyrenius H. Hearst Connecticut Media previously reported in April that the Connecticut Library Association has 35 active challenges against school and library books, which has doubled since 2022. So a book that has been challenged hasn’t been banned officially, but it means that it has the potential to be banned. “Their aim is to suppress the voices of those traditionally excluded from our nation’s conversations, such as people in the LGBTQIA+ community or People of Color.” Overwhelmingly, we’re seeing these challenges come from organized censorship groups that target local library board meetings to demand removal of a long list of books they share on social media,” Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom said in the report. “A book challenge is a demand to remove a book from a library’s collection so that no one else can read it. H John Voorhees III/Hearst Connecticut Media The district’s Special Review Committee and the superintendent unanimously support keeping both books in the library. The Newtown Democrats held a rally at Newtown High School before last nights Board of Education meeting, against the boards possibility of voting to ban two books, “Flamer” by Mike Curato and “Blankets” by Craig Thompson, from the high school library.
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