This blog will show just SOME OF the books that students have checked out of the intermediate school libraries. You will see screenshots from the Clear Creek ISD online library catalogs showing the school libraries and shelf locations for the books and scanned pages from most of them. You can also see if the book is checked out, lost (which means it was checked out at some point and may be returned), or available on the shelf for kids to read in the library (if they are afraid their parents would find out that they checked it out or if they don't want to carry around a book called Two Boys Kissing, for example).
I have included several scanned pages, and please know that this isn't all of the inappropriate material found in these books. These books obviously have no place in a public school library at any level.
Warning! Scanned pages from these books contain profanity, drug use, and visual or written descriptions of sex, homosexual sex, rape, abortion, child sexual abuse, pornography, etc.
This book is currently checked out in Spanish. It is also available in English at other intermediate schools in CCISD. I have included scanned pages from the English version of the book.
These are just SOME of the books intermediate students are checking out of Clear Creek ISD INTERMEDIATE school libraries according to the district's own online library catalogs. These books obviously contain inappropriate content and students are checking them out or reading them in the school library without their parents' knowledge or consent.
What can parents in Clear Creek ISD do?
· Tell the school that your child is not allowed to check out any books in the library or read any books in the library. You will provide books from home for silent reading time at school. Send an email to the principal, classroom teacher/s, and school librarian so you have it for documentation. Teachers sometimes have books like this in their classroom libraries, so you can include that your child cannot read books in the teacher's classroom library either.
· Email your concerns to the campus principal and district superintendent.
· Sign up to voice your concerns at the school board meeting.
· Share this information with other parents, church pastors, neighbors, etc.
· Form a group of concerned parents to work together to fill out library book reconsideration forms to get the books removed and to support each other when speaking at school board meetings. There is strength in numbers, and if only a few people show up to the meetings the school board will assume that most people don't care.
· Help get conservative candidates elected to the school board. Volunteer to help their campaigns by putting up yard signs, knocking on doors, helping with text messaging campaigns or voicemail campaigns, helping with clerical duties at their campaign headquarters, etc.
What else is going on in your child's school? Get informed and get involved!