Banning Books, Sidestepping Parents

THERE ARE A FEW TENETS concerning education that conservative Christians seem to all embrace. A fundamentsl one is to avoid by prohibition teaching about things that are undesirable, meaning, things which conflict with conservative Christian political orthodoxy. If it aint savory to conservative Christian sensibilities; ban it. For instance, no discussion about gay or transgender folks. Nothing about racism in America, past or present. And, the lynch pin; the banning of "certain" books, which is daily coming to mean many more than "several"; several hundred at last count. The books most often banned concern gay and transgender kids, racism, or religions other than Christianity.Lastly but of utmost importance, underscoring all other decisions; parental influence and ultimate control of school curricula.Tthe fly in the ointment that that none of these policy decisions has been implemented or even voted on by the parents in the general public anywhere. In every case, its a small group of politicans and administrators, some not even elected, who are making these choices. This fact will predictablly be counterd by teh specious argument that all over America the paents indeed are deciding on and implementing these restrictions, since the school board members and administrators who make them were chosen by the conservative Christian community majority of voters. This argument, of course, is pure nonsense. The fact remains that no local, regional, or national voter referendum has occurred to indicate any majority support for any of these harmful policies, about gay people, race, or books. After the fashion of fascists, everywhere, the book banning community, a definite minority of the American people, is claiming, like Trump, a mandate which simply does not exist. Parental control is nothing but a noble sounding catch phrase to justify the usurpation fo what Americans really want and replacement of it with outdated, censorious, heavy handed government interference in public education by a radical group of far right wing extremists. What Americans really want in public education, and in soceity, is cultural acceptance of diversity and an open, free culture of diverse ideas and lifestyles. Banning books has no placein a free, democratic soceity which values educaiton, and msot Americans know and support this sacred principle. then, there are the minority of fascist usurpers,ozzing like posson from within the Trump movement. They must be defeated, and relegated, ideologically, to the veritable dust bin of history.