M4L Hernando County - Curriculum and Materials Review Committee

Committee Chair - Julia Thomas ([email protected])
Committee Size = 5 Members (Including 1 retired teacher / 1 current teacher)

Highlight: Given the refusal of the Hernando County School District to comply with its own policies, let alone State Statute, as well as its dishonest attempts to hide inappropriate books (sexual or otherwise), and to knowingly use dishonest tactics to even gaslight the public about our efforts to remove them, our Committee has decided to add an official Committee Page to our website so that we can better inform the public about how their tax dollars are being spent and what their elected Board members are up to.

👇 A full detailed list accompanied by copies of the official challenges, emails between the Committee and District, and other supporting materials can be found below (This is a work in progress, so please bear with our Committee as we painstakingly expose everything)  👇

Exposing the "Book Ban Hoax": Sadly, at nearly every Hernando County School Board meeting a tiny yet vocal minority of District Staff shows up (at the request of the Board) to not only defend these inappropriate books but also to defend the Board on why they have a right to discuss sexual topics with minors. The most common phrase used by these "groomers" is that Moms for Liberty is trying to "ban books".

For the record, at no point has our Chapter EVER called for a book ban. This is a lie. We are simply asking our School District and others to follow the law and more importantly remind the District that it's not their duty or their job to discuss sexually age-inappropriate materials or promote hard-left Marxist anti-American political topics with children. Our Public Schools need to educate, and not indoctrinate!

Here's what we are NOT doing:

• We are NOT telling authors to stop publishing their work.
• We are NOT contacting public (non-school) libraries to censor their non-children selections.
• We are NOT asking retailers to stop selling these books.
• We are NOT concerned with classic titles that the media wants you to believe (i.e., Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, Dr. Seuss, Ian Flemming's James Bond, etc. etc. were all "canceled" by political left-leaning groups and the K12 Cartel who are both stuffing our school libraries, both locally in Hernando as well as nationwide, with what can only be described as porn - Source 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).

Here's what we ARE doing:

• We ARE asking districts to have a clear and unbiased review process for books with extreme content (Hernando has a barely existing yet functional process, that - based on the track record so far - is hopefully biased in favor of exposing children to adult materials).
• We ARE seeking the titles with the most explicit content (graphics with images of sex etc) to be removed from school libraries. Period. Florida law is crystal clear on this topic and Hernando County has purposefully remained in violation of its own policies and State Law regarding this topic.
• We ARE proposing that "explicit content" stickers be placed on covers so parents have more knowledge of content (like CDs). We ARE working nationally to have a book-rating system that would help prevent School Districts from violating the law and to give parents to make educated decisions.

When is a Book Actually Removed:

• A "bad book" is only removed from consideration after the School Board votes to remove it, OR, if someone publicly reads from the bad portions of a "bad book" at a School Board Meeting and is stopped at any point by the Board Chair or Board Attorney from reading said book. These are the ONLY two methods for legally removing a book from consideration by the District for good.
• IF the District decides to secretly erase books out of Alexandria and hide them in a supply closet for a few years until Moms for Liberty goes away, and the children of various upset parents graduate out of the District, then this IS NOT removing a book from consideration. Instead, this is called preserving a book for future reconsideration. It's a very dishonest tactic that the Hernando County School District uses a lot to skirt the law and keep the public in the dark about what is actually going on.