The Escambia County School District, located in the Florida panhandle, has removed several dictionaries from its library shelves over concerns that making the dictionaries available to students would violate Florida law. The American Heritage Children's Dictionary, Webster's Dictionary for Students, and Merriam-Webster's Elementary Dictionary are among
  • Got_Bent@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    HB 1069 gives residents the right to demand the removal of any library book that “depicts or describes sexual conduct,” as defined under Florida law, whether or not the book is pornographic.

    I was going to ask how their bible gets around this, but then I found several instances of its removal in Florida.

    These librarians. I like them. Assuming they’re doing this as a statement.