‘Arthur’ Book Facing Ban in Florida Over This One Wacko Complaint
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A lone parent filed a complaint to a Florida school district that a book in the Arthur series—yes, the same Arthur from the beloved PBS animated show—contained references to Spin the Bottle, and now it’s possibly on the district’s chopping block.
A member of the Clay County School District community, based in Green Cove Springs, filed the challenge on July 12 to Marc Brown’s Arthur’s Birthday , a children’s book geared towards students in kindergarten to sixth grade. District spokesperson Terri Dennis told The Daily Beast that it was among 45 challenged titles now “pending oversight committee review.”
On Wednesday, the district provided The Daily Beast with the stack of challenge forms the school district had received for July. At least eight book challenges filed that month were submitted by a local conservative activist named Bruce Friedman.
Arthur’s Birthday details the title character’s upcoming birthday and how it falls on the same day as another party for a classmate, who happens to be a girl. Arthur wants all of his friends to show up, and figures out a plan to combine the parties together. At the end, Arthur receives a “Spin the Bottle” present from one of the girls.
On his form, Friedman wrote, “PROTECT CHILDREN!! IT IS NOT APPROPRIATE TO DISCUSS ‘SPIN THE BOTTLE’ WITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN. THIS BOOK IS FOUND IN ALL/ALMOST ALL [DISTRICT SCHOOLS]!”
Friedman continued to scribble across the form how “SPIN THE BOTTLE” is “NOT OKAY FOR K-5 KIDS!” and how the content could potentially “DAMAGE SOULS.” He also included images from the book that he felt were not suitable for its intended audience.
“The entire book is about being inclusive of all friends and not only inviting boys or girls (based on your gender) to your birthday party,” literary watchdogFlorida Freedom to Read Projectwrote on Twitter.
Reagan Miller, a member of Florida Freedom to Read Project, said she believes book banners are just trying to create “chaos in the education system” and make a boogeyman out of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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This is bizarre but considering the guy that is filing this not unexpected.
This is totally nuts. No one has ever filed a complaint over an Arthur story.
It's way beyond nuts this is a quote from this nut case:
That is totally nuts.
Well, it's DeSantis Florida, what can you expect from the King of culture wars.
Exactly, no nuts in Florida before 2019.
I don’t support DeSantis in any way but he didn’t start the culture war, he exploits it like Kamala and others do.
Blame Americans on both sides that eat this shit up.
The many new culture war ''laws'' that he instituted did not exist before he became governor. That is a fact and as far as Harris goes she isn't part of the article but she did fire back and the wording is different between the national ap and Florida's as has been pointed out by prominent Black Conservative Republicans on the national and Florida state stage who have told DeSantis to STFU.
I doubt that the Black Conservative Repubs have read either version any more than the Dems. It’s politics not history that most care about.
Since they specifically pointed out the sections they knew exactly what they were speaking about, too bad that you feel that black conservatives don't understand or don't research things but that's you.
Again, please describe the errors or inaccuracies.
I have and really don't need to keep repeating/posting it. If you chose to be willfully ignorant on this that is on you.
You can't possibly believe the candidates running against DeSantis or the Trump partisans who both somehow managed to tweet out the same false claim that the standards argue slavery was a "net benefit" for slaves within an hour of each other are engaged in politics? That's as unthinkable as a VP attacking DeSantis for using essentially the same standard she said only an extremist would oppose.
I guess it’s on me then because I haven’t seen it.
So, according to you, the four don't have any feeling about the DeSantis and the Florida AP comments other than being attack dogs because they are running for president or they are Trump supporters, not giving they much credit are you...
And DeSantis attacking them on fairly bland comments really draws the party together and can be an impetus to bringing more minorities into the Republican party which is sororally lacking their numbers. Brilliant strategy, but then again DeSantis is known for this and hasn't mastered the solution to ''stop digging when you're in a hole''.
so, thumper fills out a book ban request on july 4... ...yeah.
Nice catch there.
And here I always thought that spin the bottle WAS a kids game.
I know, how in the world did we think that it was a kids game.
I don't think I ever played Spin-the-Bottle. Hard to get a game like that going in the middle of the woods.
Yeah, it's nuts. But unfortunately necessary to prohibit the crap being pushed into libraries. Liberals would latch onto 'spin the bottle' to open the door for all sorts of deviant pornographic material. Liberals don't compromise so, in the end, the library will have to be closed.
This reeks of in order to save democracy we need to suspend it ... how Steve Bannon!
This is a consequence of giving power to the offended. The argument ain't about democracy; the argument is about who has a right to be offended.
So I've noticed ...
That is about a nutty a statement that I've see in quite some time.
Why? What's nutty are liberals complaining about their own intolerance.
Word salad.
Yes, how dare anyone be allowed to fill out a form. The horror!
It seems that you didn't read the complete article and made comments without knowing the facts.
From the article:
Ok, I’m no fan of the Book Police, to be sure. But I have to concede that “Spin the Bottle” is a bit of a risqué reference for a book aimed at little kids. That hardly makes it obscene, but I wouldn’t be in a giant hurry to have to explain the game to a 5 year old.
Agree, in more reasonable times a parent would simply have a quiet with the librarian or principal.