BREAKING: ROCKWOOD LIBRARIAN TAKES ACTION AND REMOVES BOOK AFTER PARENT CONCERNS
Moments ago, the news broke that Geggie Elementary librarian, Kristina Presley, said she would not be putting this book on the shelves:
"Activists Assemble: We Are All Equal!" written by Shannon Weber and Jade Orlando.
She also said she'd remove it from the library database. And, she did. You can see "results not found..." in the first image.
She described the book as "not a good fit."
This comes after a parent questioned the book, found in the Rockwood library database.
Among other items on the book's "contents" page, pages in the book define Gender, Sexuality, and Reproductive Freedom.
This would be available to kids as young as 5 years old, if it were placed on Geggie's library shelves.
Librarians don't typically read books before placing them on shelves, so, the move appears to be unusual, and follows months of a spotlight parents put on what many call inappropriate books in Rockwood school libraries.
This makes the second book removed because school personnel thought it wasn't a good fit.
The other book deemed not a good fit is "Our Skin: A First Conversation About Race." Among its pages, there are numerous statements that have been viewed as negative toward white people. On one, it says white people said they're prettier, smarter, and, deserve more than everybody else. That page is the cover photo of this site.
A parent complained about "Our Skin," the principal read it, and removed it. That was at Pond Elementary earlier this school year.
22 other books have since been removed by district librarians because of a new that prohibits sexually explicit images.
Parents who have used Rockwood's formal process to challenge more than a dozen books, lesson content, and a teacher resource were not successful. You can read more about books that have bothered parents here, on the Questionable Books section of this site.
Here's the statement from the Geggie librarian:
