... and the school's official justification for banning _Soul Music_ was:
"Adult audience content – may include sexual material, violence, abuse, substance misuse, or psychologically distressing themes."

A school rep wrote:
"Although the categorisation was generated using AI, I consider this classification to be broadly accurate."

The school librarian was forced to resign, and won't be able to work in schools again because the local authority substantiated the accusations that she "failed to uphold safeguarding procedures."
How many school librarians would be left in the UK if you threw out everyone who had bought, or failed to deaccession (bc the poor woman didn't even buy all them all herself) books by Terry Pratchett, Michelle Obama (!), Zadie Smith, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, George Orwell....

Frankly I suspect a teenager could get a better education from reading and writing about the banned books than from attending a school whose leadership creates and relies on an LLM-generated "final List of alleged books with inappropriate content" (yes, "alleged" is modifying "books," not "inappropriate" as it ought to)