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submitted 1 year ago by kalanggam@beehaw.org to c/usnews@beehaw.org

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ninja/post/49635

Book vendors selling to Texas public schools, ranging from national sellers like Amazon to local bookstores with eight employees, must now rate all the books they sell based on sexual content, according to new legislation signed into law on June 12.

If the book vendor fails to comply with state library standards that will be in place by January 1, 2024, they’d be barred from selling to Texas public schools.

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[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 year ago

Man I'm so worried for future generations of kids. I hope they can persevere through the hobbled addition system and find their way to an open education. Lest they be accepting of the dumbing down of everything.

[-] TechyDad@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I'm proud of my son. He decided to read a book based on "it was banned in some school districts" (not ours). He then scoffed at the reason for the ban.

I can't recall the book title at the moment, but the reason was that two characters have sex and the incident takes up one page. From what my son described, it wasn't overly graphic. This wasn't an erotica sex scene tossed into the book. It was just the normal kind of story description of events. Books like the Bible have much more graphic content.

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