Pender County Board of Education removing books to be reviewed
PENDER COUNTY (WWAY) — The Pender County Board of Education has unanimously voted to remove more than 40 books from school shelves for review.
The board is reviewing certain books claiming they look at materials in the books routinely to see if the material is appropriate.
Many county residents showed up to the board meeting on February 15th to speak out in favor of removing some books, saying they contain either violent or sexual images and descriptions.
One series titled “Assassination Nation” features a student trying to kill their teacher. Mike Korn is in favor of getting rid of that book for certain reasons.
“Teaching kids how to shoot up a school building. That’s a cartoon pictorial and it is disgusting just by looking at it. So that’s the second category, those are objectional, they don’t meet pornography, but certainly do you want your children reading that in the schools?” Korn added.
Korn says he appreciates the board’s cooperation with the matter at this time.
Here is the list under review:
“Brave New World”
“A Court of Mist and Fury”
“A Court of Silver Flames”
“A Court of Thorns and Roses”
“A Court of Thorns and Roses” (ebook)
“All Boys Aren’t Blue”
“All the Thing We Do in the Dark”
“Allegedly”
“Are You My Mother”
“Boy Girl Boy”
“Cemetery Boys”’
“Cemetery Boys” (ebook)
“Crank”
“Damsel”
“Darius the Great Deserves Better”
“Dreaming in Cuban”
“Empire of Storms”
“Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”
“Forever”
“Gender Queer”
“George”
“Go Ask Alice”
“I am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter”
“Identical”
“Last Night at the Telegraph Club”
“Lawn Boy”
“Looking for Alaska”
“Looking for Alaska” (ebook)
“Me Earl and the Dying Girl”
“Melissa”
“None of the Above”
“Out of Darkness”
“The Perks of Being a Wallflower”
“The Perks of Being a Wallflower” (DVD)
“The Perks of Being a Wallflower” (ebook)
“Rethinking Normal”
“Slaughterhouse Five”
“Sold”
“Speak”
“Speak” (audiobook)
“Speak” video recording
“Speak: The Graphic Novel”
“The Absolute True Diary of a Part Time Indian”
“The Art of Racing in the Rain”
“The Black Flamingo”
“The Bluest Eye”
“Thirteen Reasons Why”
“Thirteen Reasons Why” ebook
“This One Summer”
“What Girls Are Made Of”
“When I Was the Greatest”
You can watch the full meeting here.
