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Students ask to join book-challenge process after McKinley Elementary removes children’s title
Summary
High school students and GSA members pressed the district to include student representation when reviewing challenged books after staff quietly removed The Rainbow Parade from McKinley Elementary, and the superintendent said the district will review procedures and consider student representation.
Several Abington High School students and GSA members addressed the school board on May 13 about the recent removal of the children's book The Rainbow Parade from McKinley Elementary’s library and asked that students be included when the district evaluates challenged materials.
Neely Murphy (recorded in the transcript as "Newly Murphy"), an 11th grader and GSA president, told the board she and other students were not consulted and asked how students would know which books had been removed. "If the school district quietly removes…
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