- November 27, 2024
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Dear Editor:
Thank you very much for your “Shelf Life” article, published in the Observer, Thursday, Sept. 21. Your journalistic approach to this thorny topic delivered a readable explanation of an issue that can be easily blurred with emotion and poorly digested information, but you laid it out in clear and concise language.
It is important to note that this "book banning" issue is moving fast: Shelves are being cleared, and unreported decisions about books are being made without the required due process. Soon we will be faced with the issue of how, and what, will be placed on those empty shelves. It is not inconceivable that the state of Florida will preempt any local decision making regarding the content of our classrooms and school libraries at all; kids in public schools will read what politicians allow them to read, and that will be that.
This issue would have, at one time, been placed in “The Marketplace of Ideas” for resolution, but no more. Your publication is doing noble service to this community in bringing it forward. Keep up the good work.
Laurel Robinson, of Citizens for Truth and Justice in Education
Ormond Beach
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