Texas Lawmaker, Parents Battle School District Over Sexual Content in Libraries
Fairfax County parents and residents protested against a library holiday display featuring the Bible next to "Gender Queer" and "Lawn Boy"—the two challenged books returned to Fairfax County school libraries after the Thanksgiving holiday—outside Dolley Madison Public Library in McLean, Va., on Dec. 11, 2021. Lisa Fan/The Epoch Times
A Texas state representative and local parents say they’ve battled mostly “woke” school board trustees for almost a year to remove sexually explicit books from their city’s school libraries.
“It’s been a very long story and a very big fight,” State Rep. Jared Patterson, a Republican from Frisco, told The Epoch Times.
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