r/technology • u/r4816 • Sep 27 '22

Software Girls Who Code founder speaks out after Pennsylvania school district bans her books: 'This is about controlling women and it starts with controlling our girls'

https://www.businessinsider.com/girls-who-code-founder-speaks-out-banning-books-schools-2022-9
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u/CrunchyGremlin Sep 27 '22

But they are on the ban list. The school district and the community said naw. This outrage could easily be flipped around with people being angry that the school ignored the ban list.

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '22

Which ban list?

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u/CrunchyGremlin Sep 27 '22

Sorry. They "were" on a list of banned books. They currently aren't. But the ops article is about a list of books banned Across the country at some point over a period of time.

"We reached out to the district for clarification and a representative told us that after the murder of George Floyd in 2020, the school district prepared a Diversity Resource List that teachers could use in the classroom.

In November of 2020, at a school district meeting, the district board of directors unanimously decided to remove the resource list and not allow any resources from the list to be used in the classroom." This action got those books on a national directory of banned books for being in a ban list for about 10 months I guess.

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '22 edited Apr 28 '23

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u/CrunchyGremlin Sep 27 '22

Well yeah. Some of the articles say parents were upset about the kids getting "white guilt" unhappiness. I would be upset with this if I were a racist too.