Texas GOP's book bans are the first step in anti-public education crusade.
teaches senior English composition at KIPP charter school in South Austin. He says the bans target some of his students' most beloved books."A lot of these books are coming-of-age narratives – memoirs or novels – which is something that's really useful to read when you're 16, 17, 18 years old," Strong said.
Tara Lane Bowman, a librarian at Lamar Middle School, worries about the effect HB 900 will have on school libraries."I am highly concerned that there will be some vendors who will say, 'Texas is too hot to touch. We don't need to sell there,'" Bowman said."And I have to emphasize that, up until now, in Austin ISD and across the state, parents have always had the right to decide what they want their child to read or not read – that has never been a question.
Chris Tackett, a former school board trustee of Granbury ISD outside Fort Worth, has become an important advocate for public education by identifying the people who create and push these bills. These people were once generally referred to as evangelical Christians. Today, there's a different term, Tackett said: Christian nationalists.
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