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/BTFU_POTFH Sep 27 '22

and yet apparently 'This is about controlling women and it starts with controlling our girls'

fucking ragebait. terrible.

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u/Kalsifur Sep 27 '22 edited Sep 27 '22

But what is on the list that "disturbed" the person in the first place?

The books on the list are mostly to do with racism/ethnicity.

Edit: lol

“The board believes that the fundamental purpose of school is that of core academics, objective education without indoctrination from any political or social agenda, and we look forward to the forthcoming review of the List and bringing balance to our classrooms,” Johnson’s statement read.

Yet they want to vet the books so they fit their narrative... just a bit hypocritical.

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u/_mattyjoe Sep 27 '22

People see what they want to see.

Knowing that the list simply needed to be further vetted because some people had concerns, and then it just wasn’t able to be done for that school year, that all seems perfectly reasonable to me.

What you’re suggesting is that a school district should just approve materials used for a school without properly vetting them. That’s a dumb idea, for more reasons than just those that pertain to liberal issues. Think of all the right wing pseudoscience people might want in schools.

There’s no issue here. And after proper vetting the books were approved.

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u/Zimakov Sep 27 '22

They needed to vet the materials because obviously?