Posted on 09/14/2023 10:14:18 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Harry Potter, The Hunger Games and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.
Those are all examples of books Reina Takata says she can no longer find in her public high school library in Mississauga, Ont., which she visits on her lunch hour most days.
In May, Takata says the shelves at Erindale Secondary School were full of books, but she noticed that they had gradually started to disappear. When she returned to school this fall, things were more stark.
"This year, I came into my school library and there are rows and rows of empty shelves with absolutely no books," said Takata, who started Grade 10 last week.
She estimates more than 50 per cent of her school's library books are gone.
In the spring, Takata says students were told by staff that "if the shelves look emptier right now it's because we have to remove all books [published] prior to 2008."
Takata is one of several Peel District School Board (PDSB) students, parents and community members CBC Toronto spoke to who are concerned about a seemingly inconsistent approach to a new equity-based book weeding process implemented by the board last spring in response to a provincial directive from the Minister of Education.
They say the new process, intended to ensure library books are inclusive, appears to have led some schools to remove thousands of books solely because they were published in 2008 or earlier.
Parents and students are looking for answers as to why this happened, and what the board plans to do moving forward.
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I believe there was a Chinese emperor a long time ago who ordered all books of any kind to be burned. He wanted history to begin with his reign, and all the things that happened before his time were totally unimportant.
Generally, this would be considered madness. But here we are.
This is happening in Canada under the guidance of Castro’s
SOB!
What’s the problem? It’s not like they’re actually teaching kids to read anymore.
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Well then… the responsible librarians are no longer needed. FIRE THOSE LIBRARIANS IMMEDIATELY.
Wow, 50% of their school library books were porn?
This is nothing but the school and library poking a sharp stick in the eyes of parents and students.
sometimes the stupid, it hurts.
No. Now they are 50% Porn and the other 50% is Marxism.
It’s called “spite”. The woke librarians are being pissy about being told to take porn off the shelves.
Canada is lost.
This same thing was done at the school where my wife teaches.
Destruction of books that cannot be assuredly woke.
You cannot find Little House on the Prairie, The Hobbit, Beatrix Potter, Winnie the Pooh, etc.
Down the Memory Hole they went.
In Tacoma, WA, USA.
No, the books they removed were not porn
“we have to remove all books [published] prior to 2008.”
They have to make sure that the only books they have in the library are inclusive porn
Wow, 50% of their school library books were porn?
And I thought National Geographic was exciting at the time.
No books written before 2008. Not even the Koran? “1984” was not supposed to be an instruction manual. 2/3 of Canadians vote Liberal (far left) or NDP (insane left). The saying you can vote yourself into socialism but you have to shoot your way out has never been more true. Canadians allowed themselves to be disarmed. So they are screwed but good
We all know the public education system’s games. “If you insist that we get rid of the library books that we like but you do not, we will just get rid of most of the books that you like as punishment.”
Orwell’s 1984 as governing and school board manual. SMH
Be sure to click on the link to see which books are now on the shelves.
It’s a reminder of ‘be careful what you ask for”.
If this can be a ‘Christian Nation’, then it can be a ‘Muslim Nation’. If you can take Harry Potter off the shelves then you can take the Bible off the shelves. People want to limit the age at which kids can be exposed to things, but if a 7 year old Jewish kid had to go through it, a 7 year old American kid can darn well be exposed to it in full, horrific detail. If you kill the ‘Fairness Doctrine’, don’t complain that 35 years later your views are ignored by all MSM outlets.
I want everybody to know everything, whenever they might possibly want to learn it, no matter who that makes uncomfortable. If reading history doesn’t sometimes make you uncomfortable or even give you nightmares, you aren’t reading history, you’re reading propaganda.
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