El Paso ISD: GRAPHIC graphic novels with shocking themes in their school libraries.

This blog will show just SOME OF the books that students can check out or read in the school library. You will see screenshots from the online library catalogs showing the school libraries and shelf locations for the books and scanned pages from most of them. If the screenshot says "there are no local copies of this title", that means that the school I searched under does not currently have the book on their shelves and other school library locations are listed if they have the book. You can also see if the book is checked out, lost (which means it was checked out at some point), 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).

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.

All information regarding library books and their locations are current as of when I researched them for my blog.

Warning! Scanned pages from these books may contain profanity, drug use, and visual or written descriptions of sex, homosexual sex, rape, abortion, pornography, gun violence, etc.

Heartstopper Volume 1 is available to students in English and Spanish. However, I only have the English translation available as scanned pages:

These are just SOME of the extremely inappropriate books that El Paso ISD students are reading in their school libraries without their parents' knowledge or consent.

What can parents in El Paso 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!