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Forum candidates back age-appropriate curation of school libraries, differ on parental control and removal processes
Summary
Candidates agreed schools should curate materials and keep explicit content out of school libraries, but differed on how much parental control and formal review processes should govern access to certain books.
Candidates at the Academy School District 20 forum agreed that school libraries should be curated for age-appropriateness and that sexually explicit material should not be available to students, but they differed on parental-control mechanics and review procedures.
"Schools have the duty and the right to curate content for students," Holly Tripp said, adding that explicit sexual or violent materials and instructional "how-to" content do not belong in the school environment. "Those kinds of conversations belong in the home," Tripp…
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