Book Challenge: Next Chapter

I know you all have been on the edge of your seats awaiting the results of this book challenge thing!...lmoa....anyway, that's the great thing about Blogs....you can write away, and if someone replies and you get a dialogue going, great....if not...at least you got to practice your typing skills. And you guys get to listen to my crap because if I put it on my Librarian Blog, someone I work with might read it and I might get reprimanded......so much for free speech!

OK...the committee met and decided they thought the book was disappointingly tame. Their recommendation: from here on out we will put a disclaimer notice in the student handbook, the school website, and a notice is going out in this month's newsletter advising parents that we have a wide variety of reading materials available to meet the requests adn interests of a wide and diverse population of students, and that it is the parents' duty to discuss with their children what reading materials they find acceptable, and to notify the school if they feel they want to put restrictions on their child's library access.

Now we shall see what happens next...the parents have the right to appeal our decision NOT to pull the book, and we fully expect them to do so (their emails were cc'd to the local newspaper), which means they will be dealing with the county school board....which can be tricky because then publicity happens and people get scared.....hopefully this will all take place after the election (we have local positions up for vote).