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Residents urge support for media specialists and for protecting history curriculum during public forum
Summary
During the Sept. 25 public forum several residents spoke in support of library media specialists and defended inclusive history curriculum; speakers described books and memorials as tools for learning and urged the board to resist efforts to remove uncomfortable historical material.
At the Howard County Board of Education public forum on Sept. 25 residents urged the board to support library media specialists and to preserve history curriculum that acknowledges difficult and painful aspects of the past.
Library support: Jennifer McClurg, who identified herself during public forum, asked the board to “trust” trained media specialists to select age-appropriate material and argued libraries are “gateways to literacy, critical thinking, and inclusion.” "Libraries are not just shelves of…
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