Question for the book-banners

I recently had a third-grader helpfully inform me that a book of poems in his classroom was school-inappropriate because it contained a dirty word. He showed me the offensive page; it included a poem written by author Dick King-Smith. I had to explain that that was a man's name; where did the kid learn that word, anyway?

Kids today are exposed to way too much sexually explicit and violent material, but it's not coming from books; it's what available at home. Ask the average under-ten child who Chucky the doll is, and they'll likely know. When I overheard two 2nd-grade children discussing someone named "Pennywise," I had to ask them who that was. They both were able to tell me that it was a child-murdering clown from a Stephen King movie, of course (I'd never seen it, but I guess these kids were big fans). Then there's the video games and the internet porn that's available at home.

But parents aren't going to blame themselves. It's always some outside influence, like some friend with "bad" parents, or a school curriculum which dares to teach them such dangerous concepts as "diversity," or a student body consisting of children from different cultures, or books about friendship.

Thanks for providing that clip. The school was at fault for allowing adult-themed material to be readily available to the students. And yeah, the little kid's book with the bondage outfit is tacky trash. But what's needed is better monitoring between the parents and the school systems so that 1. Genuinely offensive material isn't lumped in with sensitive subject matter, and 2. Fascist groups don't get away with using extreme examples to push their bigoted agenda back into the dark ages and foment even more cultural division. Either way is a slippery slope.
Frog and Toad are still friends! 🐸🐸

Those posters getting their knickers in a twist over books "depicting sexual acts" indicate just how hysterical and paranoid they've become. The books available in elementary schools show no such thing; it's all in their suggestible little minds. It's ludicrous how the mere suggestion that two animals depicted as living together in a series of kiddie books can threaten their mindset. Maybe they should actually take a look at these innocent little stories. The books are written on a first-grade level, so they can probably struggle through them.
But maybe it's easier to fall for the horror stories about sexually explicit material being shown to schoolchildren being peddled by neo-fascist groups such as "Moms for Liberty."