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So, these libraries should then also avoid stocking things like the bible, in your opinion. Do I have that right?
by pksebben 5y ago
So, these libraries should then also avoid stocking things like the bible, in your opinion. Do I have that right?
- WalterBright 5y agoI didn't suggest they avoid stocking anything. I said the government gets to decide what goes into the government school library.
- pksebben 5y agobut you mentioned creationism, specifically. and religion. I meant specifically by those terms.
- SauciestGNU 5y agoI guess the question here is whether having material available in a library is the same as promoting or teaching that material per se. I don't believe that's the case, I think libraries (even in public schools) are basically repositories of information, and how that gets used is the responsibility of the user and not of the library.
- WalterBright 5y agoYes, I did. The government banned them in the public schools. I didn't.
- pksebben 5y agoright, so, if we assume that the rule is "if pubic school cannot teach x subject, then books about x subject ought not to be in their library" (which is the inference in your comment) then you must mean that's for both books relating to gender non conformity and books like the bible. The point here being that there appears to be a double standard. "not taught in the curriculum" and "banned from the library" are different standards.
- WalterBright 5y agoThere's no double standard. The library is part of the public school. Therefore it is subject to the government's decision on what goes in it. If you are inferring that I am advocating that government ban books on X and supply books on Y in the school libraries, that is a serious misreading.