Daily News | Perkiomen Valley High School students walk out over proposed library book policy targeting ‘sexualized content’
Some Perkiomen Valley board members said at a recent meeting that parents don’t want schools making sexual content available to children, and that they aren’t targeting any particular group. But a number of students who walked out Monday — gathered on the high school track during the last period of the school day — said they saw the policy as an attack on LGBTQ students.
“At what point do you stop sheltering your kids from the real world?” said senior Cece Drury, who said it was “no coincidence” that books that have already been challenged in the district through its current process center around LGBTQ experiences and relationships.Aspen Bradley, a junior who helped organize the protest, said the policy served “to erase many of our marginalized students in the district library, and to make us feel we are inherently dirty or wrong.”
The school board was slated to meet Monday night, though the policy wasn’t on its agenda. Superintendent Barbara Russell said the district was working on a way to accommodate parental concerns while not denying all students access to books they wanted to read.Saylor received by the district over the past year, according to the Pottstown Mercury. Saylor told the Mercury other parents had contacted him with concerns about the books — which include
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