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I understand the words thank you and I dare say my grandchildren are likely older than yours.

by defrost 2y ago

timewizard 2y ago
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- defrost 2y ago
  Whenever I discuss the meaning of words with children and grandchildren I refer them to dictionaries (plural) Banned: officially or legally prohibit (something), to forbid (= refuse to allow) something, especially officially, to prohibit, esp officially, from action, display, entrance, sale, etc; forbid. This and similar can be found in the Cambridge dictionary, the Oxford English Dictionary, the Merriam-Webster, the Collins, et al. "Officially prohibit" is what the Lamar CISD did via their Board Policy Manual that was passed and adopted on the 19th of November 2024 via point 10. of their Library Materials Collection Development policy: No library materials used in elementary schools shall contain depictions or descriptions of sexual acts or stimulations of such acts implied or otherwise. This includes explicit or non-explicit written descriptions, depictions or illustrations of sexual acts, except for the purposes of teaching students (as may be approved by parents) to avoid and report molestation. No material in elementary school libraries shall include visual depictions or illustrations of frontal nudity; The seal was _banned_ from the library under the "[no] visual depictions or illustrations of frontal nudity" clause. Not only _banned_, according to multiple reports the seal was also _expurgated_ by the school board along with a section about Virginia from its online learning platform used by 3rd-5th graders (eg: https://www.txftrp.org/censorship_tx_even_state_flags_arent_safe https://www.txftrp.org/censorship_tx_even_state_flags_arent_... for one such source) See: https://pol.tasb.org/PolicyOnline/PolicyDetails?key=481&code=EFB#localTabContent https://pol.tasb.org/PolicyOnline/PolicyDetails?key=481&code... You were factually incorrect in your claim that "They didn't ban it." ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43734863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43734863 ) You were factually incorrect in your limited definition of "Banned" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43735102 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43735102 ) You have also apparently failed to read and certainly failed to heed the HN user guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html These are all simple things that can be improved upon.

I understand the words thank you and I dare say my grandchildren are likely older than yours.

timewizard 2y ago

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defrost 2y ago
Whenever I discuss the meaning of words with children and grandchildren I refer them to dictionaries (plural) Banned: officially or legally prohibit (something), to forbid (= refuse to allow) something, especially officially, to prohibit, esp officially, from action, display, entrance, sale, etc; forbid. This and similar can be found in the Cambridge dictionary, the Oxford English Dictionary, the Merriam-Webster, the Collins, et al. "Officially prohibit" is what the Lamar CISD did via their Board Policy Manual that was passed and adopted on the 19th of November 2024 via point 10. of their Library Materials Collection Development policy: No library materials used in elementary schools shall contain depictions or descriptions of sexual acts or stimulations of such acts implied or otherwise. This includes explicit or non-explicit written descriptions, depictions or illustrations of sexual acts, except for the purposes of teaching students (as may be approved by parents) to avoid and report molestation. No material in elementary school libraries shall include visual depictions or illustrations of frontal nudity; The seal was _banned_ from the library under the "[no] visual depictions or illustrations of frontal nudity" clause. Not only _banned_, according to multiple reports the seal was also _expurgated_ by the school board along with a section about Virginia from its online learning platform used by 3rd-5th graders (eg: https://www.txftrp.org/censorship_tx_even_state_flags_arent_safe https://www.txftrp.org/censorship_tx_even_state_flags_arent_... for one such source) See: https://pol.tasb.org/PolicyOnline/PolicyDetails?key=481&code=EFB#localTabContent https://pol.tasb.org/PolicyOnline/PolicyDetails?key=481&code... You were factually incorrect in your claim that "They didn't ban it." ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43734863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43734863 ) You were factually incorrect in your limited definition of "Banned" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43735102 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43735102 ) You have also apparently failed to read and certainly failed to heed the HN user guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html These are all simple things that can be improved upon.