Ahead of the new school year, school staff have been busy trying to comply with a new state law,, the Parental Rights and Transparency Act, requiring every book in Iowa public school libraries to be “age appropriate” and devoid of “descriptions or visual depictions of a sex act”.
“It is simply not feasible to read every book and filter for these new requirements,” Bridgette Exman, the assistant superintendent of Mason City School District,quoted by Iowa newspaper the Gazette. “Therefore, we are using what we believe is a defensible process to identify books that should be removed from collections.”
How many books are we talking about? Hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands? Nope. The answer to this question is the same as
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