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CANDIDATE: Stance on social issue books

| April 16, 2021 1:00 AM

As a Library Trustee candidate, I DO NOT believe books should ever be censored or banned. The real question is what kind of books should the library be promoting to our children? English and math scores are suffering, so it would seem natural to focus on those kinds of books? When I last walked through the library, it wasn’t math and science prominently displayed at the front door.

The hot issue now is for libraries to promote social issue books to our young children, like sexual-orientation or white privilege, or the controversial drag queen book readings done in Spokane. I believe these are subjects better left to parents and that libraries should be a resource for knowledge that makes our community better. We are in desperate need of critically thinking young people, not more Social Justice Warriors.

VANESSA ROBINSON

Coeur d’Alene