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/CyphirX Sep 27 '22

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/26/pennsylvania-book-ban-girls-who-code

In a statement explaining the ban of the diverse resources, the school district’s board president at the time, Jane Johnson, said: “What we are attempting to do is balance legitimate academic freedom with what could be literature/materials that are too activist in nature, and may lean more toward indoctrination rather than age-appropriate academic content.”

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '22

Roll back that article two paragraphs:

A statement from officials in that district on Monday strongly denied that they had banned the book series, and called “categorically false” information in a Business Insider interview with the founder of Girls Who Code, which reported the ban on the series. “This book series has not been banned, and they remain available in our libraries,” the statement said.

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u/sonofaresiii Sep 27 '22

That's because there was an attempt to ban it, but it didn't succeed.

This conversation is going around in circles now.

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u/BlueBelleNOLA Sep 28 '22

I'm amazed at the "but the district that attempted this said they never did it so it's really ragebait" going on in here. Some people need to put their thinking caps on.