The Escambia County School District, located in the Florida panhandle, has removed several dictionaries from its library shelves over concerns that making the dictionaries available to students would violate Florida law. The American Heritage Children's Dictionary, Webster's Dictionary for Students, and Merriam-Webster's Elementary Dictionary are among
Eh, I think this is going to play into the legislator’s designs.
My thoughts as well. This leads to “only approved books allowed.”
That’s literally and explicitly the point.
From the end of the article:
I agree with both you and [email protected] but somehow interpreted that sentence differently. Thanks for helping see it! Not great either way I guess, tho 🙁
I didn’t post to disagree with you, just to drive home how damn ridiculous this AG is. Sure, the law is effed, but this guy is right out of 1984.
Ya, very true. It’s so bad.
Welcome to 1984
Which is the whole point of the law.