In June of 2022, LeBlanc was before the Smithfield School Committee with like-minded parents calling for three books to be banned from school libraries...
Thank you SO much! Megan Reilly is running for NKSC and is also a book banner and is incredibly popular. She is running a good campaign and skirts the book banning issue, but make no mistake that she does believe in banning books.
Thank you for all the great local reporting you do Steve. You had me at "LeBlanc dismissed the concerns of a Black parent who commented that her children were victims of that word as early as the third grade." Ooh, menu options. Is he just clueless, a racist, a misogynist, or the trifecta?
From school libraries. Not from the classroom--I would have hesitation about using those books in a third-grade classroom--but from the library. What's the kid watching on line, I'd like to know? Are the third-graders wandering around the library unsupervised, reading whatever they want (which I actually think is a good idea)? Do the teachers and/or librarians help student select books that will interest them? If the kid isn't interested in gender issues or BLM or whatever, she isn't going to be interested in those books. If she is, is it better to learn about these issues from her peers? from on-line spaces that steer her into dangerous places? or at a library, where a librarian or teacher might notice and sit down and direct her to something more age-appropriate? And how about if I think my kid is free to read?
Thank you SO much! Megan Reilly is running for NKSC and is also a book banner and is incredibly popular. She is running a good campaign and skirts the book banning issue, but make no mistake that she does believe in banning books.
Thank you for all the great local reporting you do Steve. You had me at "LeBlanc dismissed the concerns of a Black parent who commented that her children were victims of that word as early as the third grade." Ooh, menu options. Is he just clueless, a racist, a misogynist, or the trifecta?
From school libraries. Not from the classroom--I would have hesitation about using those books in a third-grade classroom--but from the library. What's the kid watching on line, I'd like to know? Are the third-graders wandering around the library unsupervised, reading whatever they want (which I actually think is a good idea)? Do the teachers and/or librarians help student select books that will interest them? If the kid isn't interested in gender issues or BLM or whatever, she isn't going to be interested in those books. If she is, is it better to learn about these issues from her peers? from on-line spaces that steer her into dangerous places? or at a library, where a librarian or teacher might notice and sit down and direct her to something more age-appropriate? And how about if I think my kid is free to read?