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Parents urge Omaha Public Schools to remove sexually explicit and violent books from school libraries
Summary
Two public commenters asked the school board to remove or restrict student access to two novels they described as sexually explicit or violent; one read an explicit excerpt at the podium and a second cited counts of profanity and violent passages and said the books are available at multiple OPS schools.
Two speakers at the Omaha Public Schools board meeting on Aug. 18 urged officials to remove or restrict access to books they described as sexually explicit or containing violent material.
Mikaela Khazor, who identified herself as an Elkhorn resident, told the board that the novel The Infinite Moment Between Us by Lauren Maracle contains “graphic pornographic material” and “should not be…
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