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  • George KG George K

    @89th said in Offensive language at a school board meeting:

    I thought the chair handled that well.

    Agreed.

    The irony is that the board is not aware that this is in one of the books that they supposedly approved.

    Is no one driving this bus?

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    @george-k said in Offensive language at a school board meeting:

    The irony is that the board is not aware that this is in one of the books that they supposedly approved.
    Is no one driving this bus?

    I have zero insight in how the board approves books but highly doubt anyone on the board has read the millions of books in the library, so let's cut some slack. If a book with that type of language is found, it should be (I would hope) a pretty fast process to get it removed.

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      No school library has millions of books.

      “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

      Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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        @george-k said in Offensive language at a school board meeting:

        The irony is that the board is not aware that this is in one of the books that they supposedly approved.
        Is no one driving this bus?

        I have zero insight in how the board approves books but highly doubt anyone on the board has read the millions of books in the library, so let's cut some slack. If a book with that type of language is found, it should be (I would hope) a pretty fast process to get it removed.

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        @89th said in Offensive language at a school board meeting:

        If a book with that type of language is found, it should be (I would hope) a pretty fast process to get it removed.

        One would think so... but apparently that is not the case.

        We have the freedom to choose our actions, but we do not get to choose our consequences.
        Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run, there's still time to change the road you're on.

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        • JollyJ Jolly

          No school library has millions of books.

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          @jolly said in Offensive language at a school board meeting:

          No school library has millions of books.

          The average elementary school library has 25,000 books. Fairfax County Public Schools has I think 220 schools in its system. This would mean there are 5.5 million books. Ok yes... many books are duplicate between schools, but let's stay at 25,000 at a single school. How can the "board" approve the contents of 25,000 books?

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          • 89th8 89th

            @jolly said in Offensive language at a school board meeting:

            No school library has millions of books.

            The average elementary school library has 25,000 books. Fairfax County Public Schools has I think 220 schools in its system. This would mean there are 5.5 million books. Ok yes... many books are duplicate between schools, but let's stay at 25,000 at a single school. How can the "board" approve the contents of 25,000 books?

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            @89th said in Offensive language at a school board meeting:

            @jolly said in Offensive language at a school board meeting:

            No school library has millions of books.

            The average elementary school library has 25,000 books. Fairfax County Public Schools has I think 220 schools in its system. This would mean there are 5.5 million books. Ok yes... many books are duplicate between schools, but let's stay at 25,000 at a single school. How can the "board" approve the contents of 25,000 books?

            By not hiring insane Librarians.

            The Brad

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              @jolly said in Offensive language at a school board meeting:

              No school library has millions of books.

              The average elementary school library has 25,000 books. Fairfax County Public Schools has I think 220 schools in its system. This would mean there are 5.5 million books. Ok yes... many books are duplicate between schools, but let's stay at 25,000 at a single school. How can the "board" approve the contents of 25,000 books?

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              @89th said in Offensive language at a school board meeting:

              @jolly said in Offensive language at a school board meeting:

              No school library has millions of books.

              The average elementary school library has 25,000 books. Fairfax County Public Schools has I think 220 schools in its system. This would mean there are 5.5 million books. Ok yes... many books are duplicate between schools, but let's stay at 25,000 at a single school. How can the "board" approve the contents of 25,000 books?

              They probably need to check out the really popular ones first to make sure they're not promoting witchcraft or something.

              I was only joking

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              • 89th8 89th

                @jolly said in Offensive language at a school board meeting:

                No school library has millions of books.

                The average elementary school library has 25,000 books. Fairfax County Public Schools has I think 220 schools in its system. This would mean there are 5.5 million books. Ok yes... many books are duplicate between schools, but let's stay at 25,000 at a single school. How can the "board" approve the contents of 25,000 books?

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                @89th said in Offensive language at a school board meeting:

                How can the "board" approve the contents of 25,000 books?

                One at a time.

                They were all ordered by someone, one at a time.

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                  @89th said in Offensive language at a school board meeting:

                  @jolly said in Offensive language at a school board meeting:

                  No school library has millions of books.

                  The average elementary school library has 25,000 books. Fairfax County Public Schools has I think 220 schools in its system. This would mean there are 5.5 million books. Ok yes... many books are duplicate between schools, but let's stay at 25,000 at a single school. How can the "board" approve the contents of 25,000 books?

                  They probably need to check out the really popular ones first to make sure they're not promoting witchcraft or something.

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                  @doctor-phibes said in Offensive language at a school board meeting:

                  They probably need to check out the really popular ones first to make sure they're not promoting witchcraft or something.

                  Well, and books like this:

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                  Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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                    Larry
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                    Are they talking about library books, or schoolbooks? That is 2 very different things, and usually the concern isn't over library books, the concern is over what is contained in textbooks.

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                      These are library books, in school libraries.

                      “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                      Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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