Canada: Peel District School Board Removes All Books Published Before 2008 From School Libraries To Ensure, “Books Are Inclusive”
September 14th, 2023If you’re curious where this kind of insanity can wind up, read about Pol Pot.
Year Zero is an idea put into practice by Pol Pot in Democratic Kampuchea that all culture and traditions within a society must be completely destroyed or discarded and that a new revolutionary culture must replace it starting from scratch. In this sense, all of the history of a nation or a people before Year Zero would be largely deemed irrelevant, because it would ideally be purged and replaced from the ground up…
Year Zero was effectually an attempt by the Khmer Rouge to erase history and reset Cambodian society to a zeroth year, removing any vestiges of the past.
See: Cambodian Genocide
Via: CBC:
Harry Potter, The Hunger Games and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.
Those are all examples of books Reina Takata says she can no longer find in her public high school library in Mississauga, Ont., which she visits on her lunch hour most days.
In May, Takata says the shelves at Erindale Secondary School were full of books, but she noticed that they had gradually started to disappear. When she returned to school this fall, things were more stark.
“This year, I came into my school library and there are rows and rows of empty shelves with absolutely no books,” said Takata, who started Grade 10 last week.
She estimates more than 50 per cent of her school’s library books are gone.
In the spring, Takata says students were told by staff that “if the shelves look emptier right now it’s because we have to remove all books [published] prior to 2008.”
Takata is one of several Peel District School Board (PDSB) students, parents and community members CBC Toronto spoke to who are concerned about a seemingly inconsistent approach to a new equity-based book weeding process implemented by the board last spring in response to a provincial directive from the Minister of Education.
They say the new process, intended to ensure library books are inclusive, appears to have led some schools to remove thousands of books solely because they were published in 2008 or earlier.
Parents and students are looking for answers as to why this happened, and what the board plans to do moving forward.
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Dianne Lawson, another member of Libraries not Landfills, told CBC Toronto weeding by publication date in some schools must have occurred in order to explain why a middle school teacher told her The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank was removed from shelves. She also says a kindergarten teacher told her The Very Hungry Caterpillar had been removed as well.
We HAVE to? NOT. Refuse, get fired, go get another job. No? Then you aren’t a real librarian. Joining in the piece-by-piece destruction of civilization as we’ve know it till the int’l alphabet agencies started taking over is not what librarians do. It’s what woke tools of the New World Order do.
I’d tell you to go read the Library Bill of Rights, but the only version I can find online is the newest, (2019), which is 180 degrees in opposition to the versions we had till the NWO took over the Am Library Assoc. The old ones would shock you, anyway, since they talk about community standards and equality of access, (not at all the same as thing as equity), and preserving our literary heritage — principles the NWO literally kills to erase from human minds and human history. Ever hear of them? Do they make any sense to you at all? How about that last one?
@Snowman, I was intrigued so I had a look…
The American Library Association’s Library Bill of Rights (pre-2019) and Freedom to Read Statement pdf:
https://www.ala.org/aboutala/sites/ala.org.aboutala/files/content/LBOR_FTR%20statement_print%20ready_NEW_0.pdf
Mea culpa, Dennis. Your link is to a version after the one I remember, but not too far from it. I don’t know what I clicked on to get what I got when I posted, but it was on the ALA site. Maybe a proposed revision? It had those familiar phrases about DEI etc in it. I feel like I stumbled into LaLa land.
I tried an AI! Asked for a pre-2019 version.
What I find interesting is that after asking for the original version, all three of the referenced webpages at the bottom of the AI response go to ‘page not found’.
Maybe those versions are archived online somewhere? Or maybe not. Erasing history. Not only do we lose the knowledge and pleasure older fiction has brought us, we lose the facts, principles and beliefs of the past that older reference books provided. Different editions of encylopedias contain different versions of the facts; unless you own a good old one, (which maybe you ought to keep hidden from the thought police), the only ‘facts’ available to us will be Wikipedia’s.
I’ve heard two young men from long-wealthy, aristocratic families and with private school educations brag that they learned the real facts about everything in school, unlike us public school peasants. I forget the full contexts, but one said, when he got involved in some trouble, “Why are you doing this to me? I’m a friend of the governor! I’m educated, I understand….” The other, who was both a German baron and an Italian count, said, “I have the 1888(?) Britannica. That’s the last year they published the true history. They’re hard to find now…”
And that’s just encyclopedias. They aren’t the only books in public library reference departments.
Have they started editing the politically incorrect out of famous speeches yet? MLK: “I had a nightmare. I was back in the days when all men were created equal. But we are fighting that, my brothers and sisters and non-binary friends, and we will overcome…”
Now I understand why I’ve always had an instinctive resistance to most of the modern versions of the Bible.