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Resigning district librarian, staff unions and community members urge board to reinstate BrainPOP, restore anti-racism resolution
Summary
During patron comments multiple speakers urged the newly seated board to engage librarians, reinstate the district subscription to BrainPOP and revisit the removal of the resolution against racism and discrimination. A librarian said the previous board's actions prioritized adult beliefs over student access and led her to leave the district.
Several public commenters and staff representatives used the district public-comment period Thursday to urge the Board of Education to restore curricular and library resources and to re-examine a previously removed resolution against racism and discrimination.
Felicia Hines Thapa, a library media specialist at Independence Elementary, said she is leaving the district after eight years and accused recent leadership of actions that "fostered inequality and exclusion," including removing librarians from the book challenge committee and discontinuing the district's BrainPOP subscription without consulting librarians. Thapa said the…
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