NEW YORK — A middle school teacher in Illinois says she was forced to resign from her job after parents called the police on her for including the book This Book is Gay in a slate of books made available to students during a reading activity.
NEW YORK — A middle school teacher in Illinois says she was forced to resign from her job after parents called the police on her for including the bookSarah Bonner, who has been a teacher for roughly 20 years, says she is just one of many teachers facing pressure from certain parents to shun LGBTQ identities from classrooms.
In March, Bonner said she held a"book tasting," so students can see what books are out there and available to read. She teaches in a rural setting, and said"sometimes access to books can get shaky." The report states that the police were"not aware of any student that had actually been affected by the book being in the classroom" except for one student who was instructed to take pictures by their parent. None of the parents wanted to pursue this criminally by the end of the police investigation, the report states.
"I did that through literature. I did that through bringing in books that not only the students can see themselves in, but also to see others as outdoor windows into spaces that they had never seen before," Bonner said. Jamie Gregory, a librarian in South Carolina, has been facing similar backlash for tweeting about her teen child's defense of a highly-banned book called"Gender Queer," and his opposition of its removal from local schools.Book ban efforts have risen dramatically across the U.S., with a record-breaking 1,269 demands made to censor library books and resources in 2022 alone, according to the American Library Association.
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