Annabelle Jenkins walked onto the stage during her graduation ceremony from the Idaho Fine Arts Academy in the West Ada School District with a book tucked into her sleeve.
When she stood before West Ada Superintendent Derek Bub, she slipped out the book — the graphic novel of “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood and Renee Nault — faced the audience and smiled, and handed it toward Bub. It was one of 10 books the West Ada School District had removed from libraries earlier in the school year.
Bub did not take the book. Jenkins dropped it at his feet and walked off the stage without shaking his hand.
A TikTok video she posted of the incident that night garnered over 24 million views and more than 15,000 comments.
This one’s though. The original novel is still on the shelves -they only banned the graphic novel since they don’t have a process in place to deliver books based on age groups. I haven’t read the graphic novel of the Handmaid’s tale, but I don’t know if I would read the book to 14 year olds. School districts have to make these kinds of though decisions all the time. Libraries on the other hand should never ban books. What do you guys think?
Kind of seems like it’s none of your business what a bunch of teenagers who aren’t related to you and don’t live with you read in their spare time.
What an unnecessarily combative and argumentative response…
I was very charitable, yes? And I explained the process in place for school districts -which are not libraries- yes? I also explained there is no method in place to deliver books by age-yes? We don’t hand out books willy nilly to everyone in schools -which, again: not libraries.
Edit: since there are downvotes but no engagement with what I’m saying. School districts have different liabilities in place that libraries don’t. It’s ok if you disagree with me. I am not pro banning books. I think if they had an age appropriate delivery mechanism they should not ban any books really. That’s all.
Please: don’t fight with everyone all the time. Life is too short.
2nd Edit: I just realized this is Lemmy.ml and you guys can’t engage with anything without getting ass-mad up the wazoo. Have fun being bitter angry people.
Cheers ❤️
I haven’t read the graphic novel of the Handmaid’s tale, but I don’t know if I would read the book to 14 year olds.
This reads like the ugly kind of censorship. Where: 1) without knowledge of the graphic book, calling for its universal removal from school libraries. 2) not knowing if 14 year-olds should read it, ban it (i.e. ban all books that can’t be read by the youngest library patron; a notion few books could survive). And 3) belittling people (calling those who disagree with uninformed censorship “ass-mad up the wazoo”).
Now there is a little nuance to the post, but it’s outweighed by crude assessments.
