> “It felt very much like a direct attack on the movement we’ve been building to get girls coding." That's because it explicitly is such an attack: “What we a

> “It felt very much like a direct attack on the movement we’ve been building to get girls coding." That's because it explicitly is such an attack: “What we are attempting to do is balance legitimate academic freedom with what could be literature/materials that are too activist in nature, and may lean more toward indoctrination rather than age-appropriate academic content.” [Emphasis added] The problem here, of course, is that activism is very much in the eye of the beholder, and so banning books on the grounds of being "too activist" effectively give you license to ban anything you want.