Texas students go off on school district’s push to ban books on inequality – By Ja’han Jones (MSNBC) / January 26, 2022
Fed-up students in Texas’ Granbury Independent School District voiced their anger at school officials looking to ban books on social inequality from libraries.
In the last year, conservative lawmakers, school officials and parents across the country have embarked on a crusade against school lesson plans focused on social inequality.
Laws and bans, ostensibly introduced to protect students from these allegedly “obscene” materials, have actually been crafted to coddle white parents — and by extension, their children — who don’t want to be reminded of the ways they benefit from oppression. But we’ve rarely heard from students themselves about how they view the conservative assault on school lesson plans.
High school students in Granbury, Texas, helped solve that problem Monday. Several of them teed off on education officials during a public meeting about their school district’s efforts to review and potentially ban hundreds of books from school libraries.
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