The state Education Commissioner has backed one local school board in its decision made last Fall to place five books that some in the community claim include sexually explicit material back on the library shelves of its Junior-Senior High School.
The Finger Lakes Times reports Betta Rosa recently dismissed an appeal filed by Jacob Marchitell, the pastor of Christ Community Church, and Wayne County Moms for Liberty, over the Clyde-Savannah school board’s decision in September to reverse its initial decision and return the books into the library.
In her decision, Rosa said, “School boards may not remove books from school library shelves simply because they dislike the ideas contained therein.”
The books are: “People Kill People,” “It Ends With Us,” “All Boys Aren’t Blue,” “Jesus Land: A Memoir,” and “Red Hood”
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