Fake News buried the truth in the copy. The headline is a LIE.
“Murphy said she did not want the book banned completely, rather until new policies that addressed explicit material for students were put in place.
“I’m not some crazy book burner,” Murphy said. “I have great respect and admiration for our Fairfax County educators. The school system is second to none. But I disagree with the administration at a policy level.””
“Beloved,” if I recall correctly, had a lesbian theme and was pretty explicit.
I don’t see why they got rid of opt-outs.
There was also mandatory parental permission. I grew up in NYC and in junior high school and even high school, they assigned some books that required that you get your parents’ permission to read. (I remember this for “Andersonville,” in 8/9 grade.). If they didn’t permit it, you couldn’t read it for class.
The schools today are really panicked by any threat to their total control of the children. That’s because they know perfectly well what they’re doing and what their objective is, and it’s not reading and writing and ‘rithmetic.