Saturday, December 14, 2024

Tag: Libraries Clearing Shelves Through ‘Equity-Based’ Book Weeding

Libraries Clearing Shelves Through ‘Equity-Based’ Book Weeding

by Mark Tapson, Front Page Mag:

The Diary of a Young Girl by Holocaust victim Anne Frank, the massively popular Harry Potter series, and the Newberry Medal-winning novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry about racial conflict in 1930s Mississippi are some notable examples of books that 10th grader Reina Takata can no longer find in her public high school library in Ontario, Canada. Why not? Because those titles were culled as part of a new “equity-based” weeding process implemented by the Peel District School Board (PDSB) last spring, leaving library shelves as bare as supermarket shelves in Biden’s America.