Conservative Christian parents force Texas school district to remove Anne Frank’s diary from libraries


A school district in suburban Fort Worth, Texas, has ordered its librarians to remove an illustrated adaptation of “The Diary of Anne Frank” from their shelves and digital libraries, along with the Bible and dozens of other books that were challenged by parents last year.

The book purge at the Keller Independent School District in Keller, Texas, was requested Tuesday by a district executive in an email, a copy of which was obtained by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. A copy of the email also circulated on social media.

“By the end of today, I need all books pulled from the library and classrooms,” wrote Jennifer Price, Keller ISD’s executive director of curriculum and instruction.

It was the latest in a string of book removals being implemented at schools at the behest of conservative activist parents and school board members who are challenging a slew of texts on grounds ranging from their LGBT-friendly content to their supposed connections to “critical race theory.” Some of these challenges have ensnared books with Jewish themes in the past.

“It’s disgusting. It’s devastating. It’s legitimate book banning, there’s no way around it,” Laney Hawes, a parent of four children in the Keller district, told JTA about the order. “I feel bad for the teachers and the librarians.”

“Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation,” by Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman and illustrator David Polonsky, is a 2019 illustrated adaptation of the bestselling diary by the teenage Holocaust victim. The New York Times called the book “so engaging and effective that it’s easy to imagine it replacing the [original] ‘Diary’ in classrooms and among younger readers.”




https://www.jta.org/2022/08/16/united-states/texas-school-district-orders-librarians-to-remove-a-version-of-anne-franks-diary-from-shelves

I heard the will be pulling the Bible as well, since it talks about sodomy and stuff.

WITLESS101...

The article says NOTHING about Christians OR Conservatives OR Conservative Christians.

WTF are you LYING about?

WHY do you constantly post HATEFUL LIES about Normal People?

Democrats replaced it with the book "The Last White Man" which is racial genocide porn for Democrats!

Ya can get them all on Amazon at no expense to the public or to parent's concerns.

When we got ‘The Diary of Anne Frank,’ we thought, ‘This is a joke.’ But it wasn’t,” Hawes said, adding that the complaint was that “the book shouldn’t be read without parent supervision.” She suspected that the parent may have objected to the unabridged diary’s references to female genitalia, same-sex attraction (https://www.jta.org/2019/06/12/culture/as-a-queer-jew-learning-anne-frank-was-bisexual-is-a-game-changer) and other sexual matters (https://www.jta.org/2018/05/15/global/scholars-restore-text-sexuality-anne-frank-erased-diary), which have been deemed “pornographic” by parental challenges in the past (https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2013/0508/Is-the-unabridged-Anne-Frank-Diary-of-a-Young-Girl-too-much-of-a-good-thing). But she couldn’t be sure because the parent who challenged the book didn’t show up to the meeting.

From your source Truman!

Why are you upset!

Democrats ban speech all the time just because one person is offended!

Democrats are all for minority rule!

By the way, the Diary of Ann Frank is available for free on YouTube!

You can bet every school aged kid knows that but you don't!

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+diary+of+anne+frank+audiobook

Hawes’ committee reinstated the book and thought that would be the end of the saga. But following school board elections in May, right-wing activists backed by campaign funds from a PAC affiliated with conservative cell phone company Patriot Mobile gained a majority on the board. They are now rewriting the guidelines for responding to parental book challenges and have ordered all challenged books from last year to be removed from school libraries in the meantime.

Commies have a problem with democracy and parental control.

I have a problem when a small minority of nuts control what everyone is taught.    Isn't that why you fulane gongly boys hate the chinese government so chuck?

So, you only have a problem when it's not a small group of commies in control.

you say that based on what chuck?   

Based on the only thing that has changed is who is in control and you weren't bitchin before that change.

so let's get this straight chuck.   you're trying to defend the fact that The Diary of Anne Frank was pulled from a public school library because it is offenseive to someone for some reason?   

is that really what you're defending?

Neither Truman nor CCPWvit have read "The Diary of Anne Frank"!

The only thing that needs to be gotten straight is that an elected board has control.  Period.