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Absolutely riveting! A must read for anyone with kids in school, taxpayers, teachers, or citizens who care about the education of Americans. Great on #audio . Seriously, read this, especially if you live in Texas! #BookspinBingo

This an extremely well researched book highlighting a wealthy town/school system in TX. I feel like I can just leave it there. You know where it goes. Racism, book banning, conservative, right wing, Christian nationalists, you get the gist. It‘s sad and frustrating and infuriating but I hope people read this, see the wrong in these ideas and thinking, and be the change. My heart breaks for the non-white, LGBTQ+ kids in this school district. 💔

#WhereAreYouMonday - Southlake, Texas

This evening I‘m reading tagged work of investigative journalism by the cocreator of the Southlake podcast. I‘m only 60 pages in, but good so far.

Every educator & every person who cares about public education NEEDS to read this book. If you‘re shell-shocked by the absolute absurdity that occurs at local school board meetings, you need to read this. If you don‘t understand why teachers/librarians are attacked for simply providing literature that represents ALL students, you need to read this. If you care about kids, you need to read this. It‘s pulling the curtain back and exposing Oz. ✊✊✊

“The principal also told her not to take it personally when residents…accuse her of being a pedophile, or to wish for her to contract monkeypox and die. ‘What you‘re going realize…is that [the parents] don‘t love all people,‘ the principal told [the teacher], before suggesting that such harassment was now an unfortunate but unavoidable part of being a public educator in America.”

“…it wasn‘t laughable. It was ignorant. And ignorance so easily morphs into evil.” 🎯

“America‘s public schools, since their very creation, repeatedly have become ground zero for this country‘s most divisive battles over politics and civil rights—from the fights over evolution and segregation to those over sex ed and school prayer.”

Fantastic but infuriating book about right wing attacks on public schools, teachers, and libraries in the past few years. Hixenbaugh focuses on one Texas suburb that embodies all that is problematic with banning LGBTQIA+ books, banning critical race theory, and impinging on what teachers are able to teach in general. Eye opening 💯💯💯💯!!