Spotsylvania VA School Board Want To Burn Books

[ZiprHead]

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.

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.”

Video of the meeting here.

 

[Metaphor]

Maybe they got the idea from this Canadian school board, who burned 4,700 books in a 'flame purification ceremony'

 

[KeepTalking]

“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.”

I suppose he also wanted to take the books into his private study with a "Do not disturb" sign for a few hours, you know, so he could, umm, identify just how bad that gay pornography is. Yeah, that's the ticket.

 

[KeepTalking]

Maybe they got the idea from this Canadian school board, who burned 4,700 books in a 'flame purification ceremony'

Burning books is bad, no matter who does it, and especially when my dad burned the Hustler "books" he found under my bed.

 

[Metaphor]

Burning books is bad, no matter who does it, and especially when my dad burned the Hustler "books" he found under my bed.

I quite agree.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Nudity and sex wasn't too common in the books I read. There was a Japanese or Chinese riff on Romeo and Juliet and there were older women that were topless in a scene in the book. Only one student went blind.

 

[ZiprHead]

Nudity and sex wasn't too common in the books I read. There was a Japanese or Chinese riff on Romeo and Juliet and there were older women that were topless in a scene in the book. Only one student went blind.

Yeah, ya gotta be careful when those nipples get hard.

 

[Jarhyn]

Is not the entire idea of books to have someone open it, read it, and be transfigured, reborn through new understanding and ideas?

Sometimes the way people stand to be reborn is with a deeper understanding of how the world is broken.

Books are designed to be traumas, with Existential trauma being the best kind!

If you read a book and did not experience a trauma, my expectation is you read it to experience an orgasm.