IN-DEPTH: North Carolina Parents Outraged Over School Librarian, Staff Promoting Explicit Books

IN-DEPTH: North Carolina Parents Outraged Over School Librarian, Staff Promoting Explicit Books
This screenshot shows a school librarian and other staff members of Palisades High School in Charlotte, N.C., in a TikTok video promoting books with sexually explicit content for a campaign encouraging students to read “banned books.” Courtesy of Brooke Weiss
Matt McGregor
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Parents of students at a North Carolina High School are calling for the termination of a school librarian and an investigation into teachers endorsing age-inappropriate literature through an advocacy campaign to promote what the American Library Association (ALA) classifies as “banned books.”

The ALA group Unite Against Book Bans, which itself created the “Right to Read Day,” launched an initiative for high school students to make their own public service announcement (PSA) about why books shouldn’t be banned.

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