The Reproductive System by Alvin Silverstein

One of the most telling titles on this list is 100 Questions You’d Never Ask Your Parents: Straight Answers To Teens’ Questions About Sex, Sexuality, and Health. While most of these books aren’t likely to be in school libraries, I don’t want to erase how irresponsible it is to try to take sex ed books out of school. While libraries attempt to keep all their collections up-to-date, politically charged topics like abortion will be updated the most, because information becomes out of date very quickly. Again, some of these books are nonsensical to assume are being shelved in school libraries, like Whose Life?: A Balanced, Comprehensive View of Abortion from its Historical Context to the Current Debate from 1991 (current debate, indeed!) or the adult book Abortion & the Politics of Motherhood from 1985. (The format of “Title : subtitle” is common in library records, but not in most other places.) Where did these books in particular come from, and what’s really on it? I went through all 850 books to find out, and I found some interesting and unsettling things.Īlong with books written for teens to understand their bodies and sexuality, this list also includes any books about abortion or pregnancy, including history books about Roe vs. It’s a bizarre assortment of titles, formatted in a way that suggests it’s copy-and-pasted from library listings. Nonetheless, with the increase of book bans and challenges recently, Krause appears to want to preemptively remove any books that could be challenged for causing “discomfort.”Įver since I saw this list, I’ve been itching to dig into it. These books are theoretically related to House Bill 3979, a so-called anti- CRT bill that bans teaching any materials that could mean “an individual should feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of the individual’s race or sex.” Of course, the bill - which is an overreach that has confused school districts about how to follow it - doesn’t actually mention books in school libraries.

On October 25, Texas Republican State Representative Matt Krause sent a letter to the Texas Education Agency asking if any of the schools in the state have the books listed on a 16 page spreadsheet, as well as how much in funds schools had spent on these books. Language eng Summary Introduction to ways that species have adapted over time to differing environments Member ofĬataloging source DLC Silverstein, Alvin Dewey number 578.4 Illustrations illustrations Index index present LC call number QH546 LC item number.

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The Reproductive System by Alvin Silverstein