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Buncombe library board rejects three book ban requests
According to one community member, the Bible should provide enough information for Buncombe County readers interested in learning about sex. The Buncombe County Library Advisory Board thought otherwise.
Letter: Check the source for ‘extremist’ label
“The Moms for Liberty group, by today’s definitions, is certainly conservative in trying to protect young children from sex-related matters (many quite extreme) until they are more mature in their abilities to sort out reasonable choices, and they deal with those questions responsibly.”
Letter: More input needed on school library book bans
“Are educators the best people to decide what books to ban for student libraries? Absolutely not.”
School library book bans come to Buncombe
Until recently, local school districts had largely avoided the national wave of book bans. Despite some activists making noise in local school board meetings last summer, there had been no formal requests to remove books from school libraries in Asheville City or Buncombe County schools. But by November, 20 books had been challenged by a group of parents at Enka High School.
Letter: Ripple effects of BCS book ban
“Reading here about the new Buncombe County Schools board book ban, I might run for the board instead of the Soil and Water Conservation District in opposition and also to represent childless residents against the parental ‘rights’ dictatorship of sociobiological ideocracy.”
Letter: BCS book ban will backfire
“By banning this book, the county schools have just made it very popular and sought after by many students.”
Letter: The problem with banning books
“The point of this narrative is that when it comes to having access to various forms of content material that provide knowledge, common sense should prevail over politics and personal bias or belief.”
Letter: Your parental rights begin and end with your kids
“If they don’t like particular books, they don’t have to read them or allow their kids to read them. They do not, however, have the right to make those decisions for the rest of us.”
