In contrast to Florida, Texas, and other red states, Illinois has taken action to protect librarians and the right to read. The legislature passed a law promoting the banning of books for partisan and personal reasons. And Governor J.B. Pritzker signed it. No book banning in Illinois!
SPRINGFIELD, IL — Banned books will soon be a thing of the past at public libraries in Illinois now that the Library Freedom Act has been signed into law. Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed the bill Monday at the Harold Washington Library in Chicago.
Under the new law, public libraries must reject outside attempts at banning books for reasons that are partisan or doctrinal, to retain their eligibility for Illinois state grants.
The law allows Illinois to withhold state funding from public libraries and schools that remove books from their shelves and do not follow the American Library Association’s “Bill of Rights,” which states that books “should not be removed or restricted because of partisan or personal disapproval.”
“Here in Illinois, we don’t hide from the truth, we embrace it,” Gov. Pritzker said in a statement. “Young people shouldn’t be kept from learning about the realities of our world; I want them to become critical thinkers, exposed to ideas that they disagree with, proud of what our nation has overcome, and thoughtful about what comes next. Everyone deserves to see themselves reflected in the books they read, the art they see, the history they learn. In Illinois, we are showing the nation what it really looks like to stand up for liberty.”
Wonderful. A return to sanity.
Bob Shepherd “A return to sanity.” . . . and you would recognize that how? ;o(
haaaaaa!
A return from DeSantisty
DeSantisty, InSanity. Same state.
Or at least a badly needed break from DeSantisty.
Well, just as there are different levels of infinity and Hell, there are also different levels of insanity.
DeSantisty is among the highest (if not THE highest)
And actually, there are many states of DeSantisty: Florida, Texas, Utah, Arizona, to name just a few
Illinois and its governor are standing up for truth, critical thinking and professionalism while rejecting the bias, cultural chaos and bigotry of red led states.
More on the opposite situation: the book banning in Utah (look at how many books this district has banned!) And the King James Version of the Bible being restricted to high schools. Legislators are having a fir, but these Legislators did this to themselves.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2023/06/13/republican-lawmakers-attack-utah/
Love it.
Isn’t it strange that Illinois doesn’t believe books should be banned but Indiana Republicans know that “Indiana school libraries are secretly loaded with books containing pornography and other content inappropriate for children.”
It is ridiculous and frightening that any person residing in the school district can come into an Indiana school and demand that a book be removed.
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[The Times] Illinois bans book bans as Indiana opens door to more library materials challenges
…In contrast, Indiana’s Republican-controlled General Assembly decreed this year in House Enrolled Act 1447 that every public school board and charter school governing body must establish a procedure for the parent of any student, or any person residing in the school district, to request the removal of library materials deemed “obscene” or “harmful to minors.”
The procedure may provide for an intermediate response by school personnel to a request to remove a library book, but it must include the school board reviewing, and possibly implementing, each removal request at its next public meeting.
The new law followed claims by Hoosier Republicans that Indiana school libraries are secretly loaded with books containing pornography and other content inappropriate for children.
“The school library should be a place for learning, not a license for grooming. We must fight the political and progressive takeover of our schools,” said Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch, a candidate for the 2024 GOP gubernatorial nomination.
Under the law, Indiana school personnel who fail to implement the prohibition on materials classified as obscene or harmful to minors no longer can claim an “educational” exemption to prosecution and may face up to 2½ years behind bars if convicted…
https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/education/illinois-bans-book-bans-as-indiana-opens-door-to-more-library-materials-challenges/article_8a016198-095e-11ee-a793-67ee41749054.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share
How would anyone in Indiana know what was in a book?
“How would anyone in Indiana know what was in a book?”
Good comment! Indiana is a red state.
Bachelor’s degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2017-2021 27.8%
yikes
Good news!
Democrats like Pritzker want people to be knowledge, to be critical thinkers, to be problem solvers.
RED fascist governors like DeSantis and Abbott fear critical thinkers and labeled them WOKE and declared war against them.
NAZI — MAGA — WOKE
Did you notice that the fascists among us seem to love four letter words to label their wars against reason, logic, facts, truth, knowledge, critical thinkers and problem solvers. LOVE is a four letter word, so is HATE.
Guess who loves to HATE – Traitor Trump, DeSantis, Abbott, et al.
Freedom.
More from Flor-uh-duh:
https://popular.info/p/florida-english-teacher-pushing-book