A HS student to their TX school board, which is banning books:
“I’m not going to sit here and talk about the slippery slope that book banning leads to because I learned from a book, that I checked out from my school’s library, that I don’t need to resort to logical fallacy to make a point. I’m simply going to say that no government – and public school is an extension of government – has ever banned books, and banned information from its public, and been remembered in history as the good guys.”
@bodhipaksa
"In 1982 the Supreme Court took up the case, Board of Education, Island Trees Union Free School District v. Pico, when students sued a school board after books were removed from the library. Justice William Brennan was joined by Thurgood Marshall, John Paul Stevens, and in part by Harry Blackmun in the majority opinion, which reaffirmed the precedent that “local schools boards have broad discretion in the management of school affairs…[it] must be exercised in a manner that comports with the transcendent imperatives of the First Amendment.”
In laymen’s terms, removing books from a school library invokes First Amendment rights endowed by the Constitution “to receive information and ideas” because of the inherent and special nature of a school library, and school officials removing books because of political beliefs would be akin to suppressing ideas."
AKA, this is a 1A violation, but good luck suing that with the current SCOTUS.
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