Radicals Are Grooming Schoolchildren With Pornographic Books—and Calling It “Education.” Parents Are Fighting Back.

The Left is exposing schoolchildren to sexually explicit books. Anyone who opposes this scheme is labeled a “book burner.” Parents must step up.

Public school libraries across the United States have become a distribution site for pornographic materials. School districts place software filters on students’ computers to restrict content to harmful websites, yet when it is suggested to have the same type of restrictions on books in libraries, the American Library Association (ALA) screams about the false narrative of “book banning.”

This is the same organization whose new president bragged about being a Marxist lesbian responsible for “queering libraries.”

But the rot goes much deeper. Across the nation, public school librarians—who are members of the ALA—staunchly support their “right” to provide very sexually explicit and pornographic materials to children. Most parents don’t even know about this harmful content available to their children, and these Marxists librarians want to keep it that way. 

Follett is a provider of library software that many school districts use across the nation to manage their collections. The company admirably had a plan to create software that would provide parents with the ability to receive an email summary about books checked out by their children at school. Parents would also be able to restrict their children from checking out certain books via this software.

Predictably, the ALA pushed back against Follett allowing these parental controls—and the company quickly caved to the Marxists, dropping the program altogether. CEO Brian Follett issued this statement about the parental controls:

Follett will not proceed with any plans to develop this module. At Follett, our mission is to support librarians and get books into the hands of students. We support the American Library Association’s Bill of Rights.

Mr. Follett needs to understand who pays for his company’s software to be used in school districts across the nation: the taxpayer, not ALA radicals. 

Parents Step Up

So, what is in these books that parents have been speaking about at school board meetings across the nation? A book may appear G-rated based on the cover and author’s summary; however, once inside the book a child could be exposed to detailed escriptions—even images—of sex acts, pedophilia, sex toys, and more.

The trauma that can be caused to a child reading sexually explicit materials can be irreversible. Everyone knows this, but no parent has time to sift through and read every book in their child’s school library.

In response, a group of concerned parents created the website BookLooks.org. Their mission is to review books and provide the information to parents so they are equipped to make informed decisions about the materials being provided to children. The organization provides ratings on the books based upon sexual content—making BookLooks.org one of the few tools that parents currently have at their disposal to fight back against the ALA’s corruption of public school libraries.

To absolutely no one’s surprise (outside academia), studies show that providing pornography to children is dangerous.

According to an article published by the National Institute of Health, “exposure to pornography in general has been linked with adolescent dating violence and sexual aggression.” A study of tenth grade boys found that boys were two to three times more likely to commit sexual teen dating violence if they had been exposed to pornography themselves. Research involving 100 female survivors of rape backs this up, with a significant number of women indicated that elements of pornography were part of their incidents of abuse.

Some state legislatures have recognized the harm these materials can cause, and accordingly have adopted laws to protect children. Texas recently adopted a bill referred to as the “FCC Standard” bill because the rules created by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) were used in the language of the law.

Kimberly Fletcher, President of Moms for America, and musician John Rich have led this effort and continue to work to get FCC Standard bills passed throughout the rest of the states. Their reasoning is sensible: If certain language cannot be used over the public airwaves, why shouldn’t the same rules apply to materials provided to minors in public schools?

The ALA’s Marxist librarians cannot provide a cogent response to that question, so they just revert back to their red herring accusation of calling it “book banning.”

Gender Theory

Providing sexually explicit materials in school libraries isn’t the only method being used to desensitize and hypersexualize children. Gender theory is also a tool being used in public education to sexualize children. Some early ideas of gender theory were rooted in Freudian and Marxist ideas of sex and social structures, but it has continued to morph into something even more sinister.

Generally speaking, gender theory refers to “gender identity” not being tied to biology but rather to self-perception. Advocates posit that the terms “men” and “women” are a social construct—not an immutable reflection of reality—that society has placed upon individuals, so the body can be changed to match a person’s perception of themselves.

If that sounds bizarre, this far-left gender theory indoctrination has even entered elementary schools across the nation through school libraries with books such as It Feels So Good to Be Yourself, which describes terms such as “sex assigned at birth,” “intersex,” “gender identity,” “gender expression,” “cisgender,” “transgender,” and “non-binary.”

Little boys who cannot spell their own name and still believe in Santa Clause, are being taught in public schools that even though their parents tell them they are a boy, they can make their own decision to actually become a girl.

In Luke 17:2 Jesus told his disciples, “It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin.” This is perhaps one of the most poignant verses in the Bible referring to the protection of children. The public needs to take a stand against this sexual destruction of America’s children.

Tell your state legislators to adopt the FCC Standard bill recently adopted by Texas and reach out to your local School Board members and tell them to defund companies like Follett who side with the Marxist librarians, rather than protecting children.

Victoria Manning is the vice president of Students First VA and an elected member of the Virginia Beach School Board