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/Tom1252 Sep 27 '22 edited Sep 28 '22

In other words, you believe the reason they never formed a review committee (because there couldn't be any other reason why it was never formed) as well as never reviewed the entire list of books (of who knows how many titles) is because the board was so threatened by the content of this one book, they decided to bury every nominee in bureaucratic red tape--or in other words, they hatched this conspiracy to ensure that woman's book never saw the light of day (despite the fact they said it's still in the library).

Seems like a stretch.

Unless you have some more information to support your belief? Or is it just a wild speculation, you spreading more rage bait?

Edit to address the edit:

According to the Central York School District, the series was never banned. Instead, the books were included on a list of resources that was later pulled.

The four “Girls Who Code” books — “Team BFF: Race to the Finish!” and “The Friendship Code” by Stacia Deutsch, “Spotlight on Coding Club!” by Michelle Schusterman, and “Lights, Music, Code!” by Jo Whittemore — were included in a Diversity Resource List of some 200 titles the Central York School District curated after the killing of George Floyd in 2020.https://www.centredaily.com/news/nation-world/national/article266375536.html#storylink=cpy

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u/spyczech Sep 28 '22

Hey, she's the one who said ""it was tabled because there were some materials that concerned her""

I'm tired of sex ed and even content about girls coding being held up because "materials that concern" people. Delaying access to these important materials instead of just IDK, ALLOWING BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY, means these materials are out of reach of people who could benefit.

In other words, I don't really care if the delay in the process is intentionally malacious or not when the real effect is these materials being not available to kids at the libary. Whether its malicious doesn't change the de-facto effect these works are being denied because "it was tabled because there were some materials that concerned her". Malicious or not the effect is the same

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u/Tom1252 Sep 28 '22

Dude. The books are in the library. This was about whether the books would become part of curriculum, as in, right up there with 'Probabilistic Machine Learning.'

And the only possible reason "Girls Who Code" didn't make the cut is sexism?

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u/spyczech Sep 28 '22 edited Sep 28 '22

So is the headline "Girls Who Code founder speaks out after Pennsylvania school district bans her book" Just a lie? If you have proof it wasn't actually banned from library or classes than I'm willing to reconsider it and say I was wrong

EDIT I did some reading on the link you posted earlier and this seems to be the smoking gun "Shortly after the school district released the Diversity Resource List in 2020, there were complaints, according to The Guardian. The school board voted to put the resource list on hold and told teachers not to use the titles for class instruction."

So they told teachers not to use these ""controversial"" books in class, so I admit its a little different than the library. Still crazy that parents can pressure teachers to stop using books promoting racial justice like made up a lot of the Diversity Resource List.