Indiana District Approves Pornographic Book in Class, Bans Requirement for Parental Consent

The school board denied a motion to require parental consent for children to access the book and approved another to keep the title on library shelves.

Conservative Indiana lawmakers want to pass a bill banning sexually explicit material in school classrooms after another district approved a pornographic book in the face of parents’ objections.

In September, the board for the Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation (BCSC) in Columbus, Indiana (located between Indianapolis and Louisville), voted to approve a book titled Push by Sapphire, despite protests from parents concerned about graphic text. One board member read passages from the book at the meeting where they passed a measure that bars parents from keeping the title out of children’s hands.

“Just me trying to go through this right now makes me almost want to throw up,” he said.

The school board, however, denied a motion to require parental consent for children to access the book and approved another to keep the title on the school library shelves. […]

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