BREAKING NEWS: King George School Board Votes to Retain Challenged Books
Board upholds superintendent Jesse Boyd's decision to keep books in the library but require parental permission to check them out.
By Adele Uphaus
MANAGING EDITOR AND CORRESPONDENT
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The King George School Board on Monday evening voted 4-to-1 to uphold superintendent Jesse Boyd’s decision to retain two challenged books in the middle school library but require parental permission before they can be checked out.
The two books under consideration on Monday were Sold, by Patricia McCormick, and ttfn, by Lauren Myracle.
A community member had appealed Boyd’s decision to keep the books to the School Board, asking instead that they be pulled from school libraries entirely.
James Monroe district representative Matthew Roles voted against the motion to uphold Boyd’s decision. He offered an amended motion that would pull ttfn completely and move Sold out of the middle school and into the high school library, but his motion was not supported.
The Board will discuss how library books are selected later Monday evening.
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