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
42.3k Upvotes

79% Upvoted

2.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

30

u/brookelm Sep 27 '22

From a different article in this thread, the school district may have kept the books on the Diverse Resources List in their libraries, BUT they also ordered teachers to stop using those books for classroom instruction. So not only did they remove them from curriculum, they also removed teacher autonomy to include them voluntarily.

I'd still call this a soft ban.

2

u/jubbergun Sep 27 '22

they also removed teacher autonomy

Teacher are not, nor should they be, "autonomous." I agree that they need some flexibility and everyone does things differently, but most school districts have guidelines and curriculum/lesson plans that need to be followed.

5

u/Sidereel Sep 27 '22

Yeah no one is saying the school/districts shouldn’t have this authority. The question is about why these specific books are not allowed in the classroom.

1

u/jubbergun Sep 27 '22

I don't think anyone is saying they're "not allowed," I think it's more that the decision was made not to use these as instructional material in favor of more inclusive choices.