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Spotsylvania School Officials Ban ‘Explicit' Books Amid Calls to Burn Them
The Spotsylvania County School Board directed staff to remove books with “sexually explicit” material from libraries after a parent raised concerns about books available through a school’s digital library app at Monday’s meeting.
The discussion was prompted by concerns raised by Christina Burris, the mother of a Riverbend High School student, who said she was alarmed that LGBTQIA fiction was immediately available through the library app. She was more upset when she came across Adam Rapp's “33 Snowfish," which is about homeless teens trying to escape from pasts that include sexual abuse, prostitution and drug addiction.
Monday night marked the first time Christina and Robert Burris spoke before the school board. The couple said they don’t believe books with sexually explicit content, like pedophilia and prostitution, belong in a high school library.
“To have something like this that could really traumatize a kid if they just check out a book because it looks cool and then they open it up and start reading it, some of the things they'll come across is just shocking,” Robert Burris said.
Video of the meeting here.Two school board members, Rabih Abuismail and Kirk Twigg, said they'd like to see the removed books burned.
“I think we should throw those books in a fire,” Abuismail said. "I guess we live in a world now that our public schools would rather have kids read about gay pornography than Christ."
Twigg said he wants to “see the books before we burn them so we can identify within our community that we are eradicating this bad stuff.”