Fort Bend ISD trustee David Hamilton is calling for the district to abolish formal review committees that assess whether a book should stay on campus shelves. Instead, he wants to give Superintendent Dr. Marc Smith the sole authority to make that decision. However, outside of fellow trustee Sonya Jones, who...
Superintendent Dr. Marc Smith said any policy that moves the district closer to having a single person having the autonomy to make decisions about books would be problematic for the district.Fort Bend ISD trustee David Hamilton is calling for the district to abolish formal review committees that assess whether a book should stay on campus shelves. Instead, he wants to give Superintendent Dr. Marc Smith the sole authority to make that decision.
According to a district employee who requested anonymity, Hamilton’s efforts to eliminate formal reconsideration committees came after a botched attempt to remove a title informally. “I do not think a single workshop will get us where we would like to be in reflection of the policy you have in draft before you,” Trustee Angie Hanan said."I vehemently reject this draft of EF Local and remain steadfast in my support for current versions. In my opinion, there are many deeply concerning additions and deletions in this draft.”
Hanan said the policy represented a"concerning lapse in board protocol" and a"blatant disregard and respect of the board committee framework." “We, librarians, take our students' safety seriously,” Woods said. “The majority of us had input on the current EF selection policy, and we support it and have been working as hard as we can to make sure it is put in place.”
Hamilton argued that current policy inhibits district librarians’ ability to remove titles they deem inappropriate because they are told that they have to wait until a formal review is filed. He added that this leaves titles that feature egregious subjects available in libraries for the time being.Trustee David Hamilton said Trustee Angie Hanan"successfully convinced" people along with public speakers who spoke at the board meeting that the policy was"anti-librarian.
The Fort Bend ISD school board voted last night to indefinitely suspend debate on revisions to the policy that governs library books. The revised policy would have enabled the removal of such FBISD library content as references to sex with Jesus, child porn,…Part of the policy revisions brought before the board also included guidelines for determining what titles were “educationally suitable” and what titles were not.
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