Booksology It was intentional to target Hillsboro. Florida’s state board of education took on the role of book censors statewide, despite the lack of legal mechanisms in states like Utah and South Carolina. The Florida Department of Education requires that each school submit books that have been removed from the library and annual reasons, but those lists are not used to request the removal of those books from additional schools (like Utah).
The threat to Hillsboro was intended to ensure that other districts didn’t remove titles that were so modestly before becoming state targets. Board commissioners use Twitter to request the removal of books and even issue threats to state school districts.
The Florida State Board of Education is appointed by the governor. Anastasios Camoutes, the new committee member, was appointed by the governor in June.
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Now, just a few weeks after the state violated its policy at the local school district level. Eight Additional Florida public school districts have surrendered. Each agrees to remove any of the 55 titles on the shelf that are deemed to have “sexual content.” Removal will be done without an official review of the title.
These eight districts agreed to remove only the districts on record. Others may agree or quietly remove the title to avoid attracting the attention of the state’s school board. Publicly available districts include Hillsboro, Broward, Columbia, Escambia, Orange, Osceola, Pasco, Palm Beach, Pinellas and St. John’s. Each district that participates in the effort to ban books without reviews is another district that succumbs to state-level committees rather than meet the needs and interests of their own community. Each district that participates in the book ban efforts is another district that reveals its interest in showing its national loyalty rather than its obligation to taxpayers.
Escambia County remains one of the nation’s most censored districts and is currently the defendant in two separate cases regarding the book ban.
It is not surprising that the majority of books on the 55 lists are of origin or about people of color, or about people of color. The same book remains there that was in the crosshairs from the start of the book’s censorship wave. Here is the full list of books currently banned at Florida schools, despite the state not having the authority to request removal at the district level.
There may also be three more books on the list. State Commissioner Camoutes requested last week via Twitter via Hillsboro and expansion. all Florida Public Schools – Lemo Contagion; Infection Prepare to remove from shelf by Alex Barty and then remove blanket With Craig Thompson Same By Ellen Hopkins.
How does this list compare to the state-sanctioned, prohibited book lists for Utah and South Carolina? The Florida list includes 13 of the 18 titles that are banned at all Utah schools. The Florida list includes 12 of the 21 titles that are banned in all South Carolina public schools.
Florida’s list does not include the third installment of Sarah J. Mars’ five volumes, “The Court of Thorns and Roses” series. The Wings and the Court of Doomreminds us how arbitrary and contingent this list is.
Florida lawmakers failed to pass a new law this year that would change the state’s definition of work. That failure helped me teen this round of censorship.
Read the Project Florida Freedom asks public education and intellectual freedom advocates to continue competing in school board meetings, questioning why the district is making these decisions, and warning districts that have not agreed to remove blankets without reviewing taxpayers being monitored.
