Micah PollakMar 1, 2023

*sigh* Time to yet again restart the counter on "number of days since Indiana has not been a national embarrassment."

#HoosierMast #Indiana

https://www.wfyi.org/news/articles/indiana-senate-bill-ban-books-prosecute-teachers-librarians

Indiana Senate passes bill to ban 'bad' books, ease prosecution of teachers, librarians

Senate lawmakers passed a bill Tuesday that would strip teachers and school librarians of a legal defense against charges that they gave harmful books to students.

WFYI
Show threadMelody Schreiber
@pollak someone needed to take a stand against cringeworthy books!
Mar 1, 2023 at 1:20amWeb
Show threadMicah PollakMar 1, 2023
@m_scribe Ah, surely nothing will go wrong with letting parents arbitrarily decide what books they consider "inappropriate" and prosecuting teachers and librarians who provide books deemed by parents as such.
Show threadJim JonesMar 1, 2023

@pollak @m_scribe I'm calling my Representatives tomorrow to see if we can stop it in the House.

It is exhausting trying to stay on top of all the utterly daft and unneeded nonsense that our state government gets up to.

Show threadMelody SchreiberMar 1, 2023
@pollak soon librarians are gonna start wearing trench coats and whispering “hey kids I got that fire” and then revealing Richard Scarry’s firehouse book