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Girls Who Code founder speaks out after school district bans her books

13 points by wturner 4y ago

dc-programmer 4y ago
Anything that can be construed as a challenge to traditional conceptions of the American patriarch will come under attack by the right moving forward
SamReidHughes 4y ago
The school district did not ban her books. https://www.gamesindustry.biz/school-district-denies-banning-girls-who-code-books https://www.gamesindustry.biz/school-district-denies-banning...
khaki54 4y ago
Didn't the school district already come out and say her book series wasn't banned? https://twitter.com/mrgrimm/status/1574443526401576960?t=rM6BU7ezOYEnMLmH5g4tjw&s=19 https://twitter.com/mrgrimm/status/1574443526401576960?t=rM6... Impressive how they managed to write an article, get comment, stir up handmaids tale outrage without basic fact check.
gamblor956 4y ago
Reading the GamesIndustryBiz article, her book was technically banned when the district banned "diversity resources" (meaning generally any book by a minority which mentions the minority experience in any way), and then they made an exception for books already in use. Her book was already in use, so existing copies can continue to be use, but new copies and new editions of her book are banned. So both sides are correct on this...
tinalumfoil 4y ago
This whole debacle reminds me of (a long time ago at this point), a story where a university tried to reprimand a janitor for reading a book they didn't like on his break. It does make me wonder how many have been reprimanded for reading the wrong book but think it was worth the energy to fight it. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna25680655 https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna25680655 EDIT: I did some research and this letter the school gave the janitor, which I feel the need to share just because of how insane and clearly illegal it is https://d28htnjz2elwuj.cloudfront.net/pdfs/4b26b68ef98eb6b6de987138657f0467.pdf https://d28htnjz2elwuj.cloudfront.net/pdfs/4b26b68ef98eb6b6d...

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Girls Who Code founder speaks out after school district bans her books

13 points by wturner 4y ago

dc-programmer 4y ago
Anything that can be construed as a challenge to traditional conceptions of the American patriarch will come under attack by the right moving forward
SamReidHughes 4y ago
The school district did not ban her books. https://www.gamesindustry.biz/school-district-denies-banning-girls-who-code-books https://www.gamesindustry.biz/school-district-denies-banning...
khaki54 4y ago
Didn't the school district already come out and say her book series wasn't banned? https://twitter.com/mrgrimm/status/1574443526401576960?t=rM6BU7ezOYEnMLmH5g4tjw&s=19 https://twitter.com/mrgrimm/status/1574443526401576960?t=rM6... Impressive how they managed to write an article, get comment, stir up handmaids tale outrage without basic fact check.
gamblor956 4y ago
Reading the GamesIndustryBiz article, her book was technically banned when the district banned "diversity resources" (meaning generally any book by a minority which mentions the minority experience in any way), and then they made an exception for books already in use. Her book was already in use, so existing copies can continue to be use, but new copies and new editions of her book are banned. So both sides are correct on this...
tinalumfoil 4y ago
This whole debacle reminds me of (a long time ago at this point), a story where a university tried to reprimand a janitor for reading a book they didn't like on his break. It does make me wonder how many have been reprimanded for reading the wrong book but think it was worth the energy to fight it. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna25680655 https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna25680655 EDIT: I did some research and this letter the school gave the janitor, which I feel the need to share just because of how insane and clearly illegal it is https://d28htnjz2elwuj.cloudfront.net/pdfs/4b26b68ef98eb6b6de987138657f0467.pdf https://d28htnjz2elwuj.cloudfront.net/pdfs/4b26b68ef98eb6b6d...