CorpusRecord 210956

Parents push Virginia school board to burn controversial books

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Source
YouTube / WUSA9
Date
2021-11-10
Location
Washington County, MS
Material
Transcript
Extent
255 words · about 2 min
Collected
2026-06-26

Transcript

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001i don't understand i can't get a straight answer from anybody who chooses these books the school library book purge started with a complaint from parents christina and robert burris it's sickening it's sickening it's sickening and i've got nothing else to say is there anything you don't know the burrisses and the school board were particularly offended by call me by your name a book about a relationship between a 17 year old and his parents adult house guest that was made into an award-winning movie and by 33 snowfish a library association best book for young adults about three runaways who understand hatred and violence better than love but the critics found more in the river bend high school digital library app yeah results for gay 172 results for heterosexual two one of the two books is actually

002speak no eva heal no evil which is about a nigerian gay boy results for pedophilia 16. lesbian 84 jesus 19 but half of them are about muslims all in favor please say aye the board voted 6-0 to pull all objectionable books now although it did not define objectionable two members want the banned books burned i think they should be thrown in a fire people see him i mean it was just sad some staffers and parents are pushing back i've seen a lot of stupid in spotsylvania schools wrote kelly lucia but this takes the cake they're literally talking about burning books terrifying wrote kathy hirsch i just think it's stupid we're in high school you can make your own decisions about what's what we can do the superintendent says staffers will immediately start removing books from

003the library shelves and report back how many they found at an emergency school board meeting next week in spotsylvania county bruce leshan wusa 9.

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