[Stoat]

So it seems that the ACLU is upset over the fact that there are still a few sane people involved with school administrations who balk at the notion of Communist indoctrination of children.  Whenever there's an opportunity to get on the wrong side of any issue, the ACLU rushes to take that side....but that's nothing new.

Hopefully the courts will not only throw out this insanity but will force the ACLU to reimburse the school district for court costs incurred in this matter,

[Brilliant]

Since when does the ACLU have the right to say what reading material a school should decide to keep in its libraries?

[darkangel82]

ka-ping

[atomicpossum]

They argue the books are appropriate for their target group, children ages 5 to 7, and that the board should add materials with alternate viewpoints rather than remove books that could be offensive.

Let's see them take that position about the Bible.

[Egon]

I guess I'd be more annoyed if the books were actually part of the curriculum, and not just available in the library. I had absolutely no interest in Cuba when I was five.

...but I agree, the ACLU sure would be taking the opposite view if we were talking about copies of the Bible.

[Steve_Seattle]

This is a ridiculous lawsuit, brain-dead stupid. No student has a right to have any particular book in the school library, and libraries inevitably exercise discretion (discrimination) in choosing which books to purchase for their libraries and which to reject. If not having a particular book, or removing a particular book, is grounds for a lawsuit, then librarians will have no time left for anything but defending themselves against lawsuits.

[p. henry]

Why should a school board not have the right to determine which instructional materials are used in the schools it administers? Why should a court make that decision?

The 14th Amendment bars any state from depriving a citizen of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. Presumably even the ACLU does not contend that the action of the board deprived students of their life or property. Is a student deprived of his liberty when the board decides which books it will stock in its library? If so, what procedure will satisfy the requirement that this deprivation of liberty is accomplished throught a due process of law?

The ACLU's expansive definition of liberty and fairly narrow definition of due process should be viewed as nothing more than an attempt by a liberal advocacy group to hinder actions by the executive and legislative branches of government of which it disapproves by subjecting those actions to judicial scrutiny and review.

[Paperdoll]

I fail to understand why the seditious ACLU is allowed to operate in this country. Of course, if it is a tentacle of the 125, I fear to understand.

[AzaleaCity5691]

I doubt that the ACLU wins this one. Maybe they'd win it somewhere else in Florida, but for some reason, I think Miami was the wrong battleground to pick for this one.

[bigjoesaddle]

[BenLurkin]

"The suit alleged the books were removed without due process,"

Due process? For a book? What are they smoking there at the ACLU?