A Texas school district’s decision to ban a graphic novel version of Anne Frank’s Diary reveals an alarming distortion of priorities. The district was...
According to a 2022 report by PEN America, a nonprofit which promotes free expression, Texas has banned more books than any other state. Gov. Greg Abbott has endorsed the banning frenzy: “A growing number of parents of Texas students are rightfully outraged about highly inappropriate books and other content in public school libraries. The most disturbing cases include material that is clearly pornographic,” he wrote in a 2021 statement.
I certainly understand why parents would want to ban any content that is pornographic, and I support the right of parents to restrict content for their own children . I can still remember being punished as a teenager when my mother found that I had hidden away a racy novel after she had told me to toss it in the garbage. I understand why the graphic novelBut the book that provoked the firing of a middle-school teacher,.
As the mother of a teenager, I understand that all of that — the speculations about sexuality, the questions about adult authority, the obsession with the only teenage boy also in hiding — is age-appropriate. What do Texas parents think their young teens talk about among themselves? And how could it be that a young girl’s description of her genitalia is more disturbing than the fact that after two years in hiding, she and her family were discovered, possibly betrayed by someone they trusted to keep their secret?Anne died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945 — heartbreakingly close to the time the camps would be liberated. Her mother and sister also died. Her father, the only survivor, later published her diary.
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