The SC Board of Education’s Draft Book Censorship Regulations
They're worse than I feared.
The first section of the following is adapted pretty closely from the remarks I did give to the South Carolina State Board of Education Policy Committee on Tuesday, November 14, 2023, and on the remarks I planned to give that afternoon at the full board meeting. Because of a very large turnout of public speakers (both for and against the adoption of the regulations), public comment was shortened in the first meeting, and I didn’t get to speak in the second.
I was a classroom English language arts and research teacher in South Carolina public schools for sixteen years. Literacy instruction is extremely important to me.
I have many concerns about the proposed regulations on classroom and school library materials. One is that the current language seriously threatens literacy and literacy instruction.
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