“I keep on struggling, even though I’ve been in several of these meetings, with: Are these objections because that word is on the page, or because it it being viewed as an instruction manual for getting your hands on meth?” a committee member said. And when on occasion a committee member would get frustrated with the seeming inanity of a page denoted for objectionable material, the member leading the meeting, an assistant principal at FPC, would coax the committee member back onto the task.
While it was clear from early in the discussion that committee members were not finding passages that rose to the legal definition, in law–as projected on an overhead screen–of material damaging to minors, they still addressed the challenge and justified their findings in detail. The joint committees spent 80 minutes discussing the book before taking their votes, addressing challenged pages page by page then discussing the book’s purpose as a whole, in the context of the challenge.
It’s like, you can’t have 100 hours community service.
And it’s across the board, not just with the school system, but they’re they’re desperate. “Well, they’re struggling to live up to expert expectations that have been placed on them,” another committee member said, “because there’s a huge lack of mental health for them to learn how to deal with anxiety, with stress. Sometimes some of our top level students are struggling with addiction.” It’s not the kid that quote unquote, looks like they’re on drugs. The first time I heard that it was so eye opening to me because it’s not the kid you expect. I’ve met students like that who have told me after they’ve graduated: Oh, you didn’t know it, but this is what I was doing during that time. And they’re saying, Oh, well, this is the only way that I can get through my academics and my extracurriculars and everything. “And when you look at other characters that she’s meeting,” a media specialist said, referring to Kristina, the central character, “they’re not all scumbags that end up in jail, like her friend’s sister is a cheerleader. One committee member noted te irony of a school board on the verge of approving the stocking of Narcan, the overdose-neutralizing agent, on school campuses while potentially entertaining the ba of a book whose aim is to keep young people from getting to the point of risking overdoses.
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