Thu Oct 13, 2022 – 7:30 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — A school board meeting in Michigan was shut down earlier this week before hundreds of angry parents could speak their minds on sexually explicit books contained in the school libraries.
On Monday night, a Dearborn Public School District board meeting turned chaotic after parents who came to express themselves were ignored.
“You have no right to sit there and tell us we can’t talk,” said a member of the community after parents were told by board president Roxanne McDonald that they would not be allowed to speak for more than three minutes.
Parents arrived Monday night to challenge the district’s policy on how schools evaluate what content is age-appropriate for students. The meeting came in response to the school board’s temporary removal of seven sexually explicit books in September. Book titles included This Book is Gay, The Lovely Bones and Red, White and Royal Blue.
Niraj Warikoo, a reporter for The Detroit Free Press, posted frequent updates on the situation on Twitter, saying the American Federation of Teachers Union was also present at the meeting in support of the books. He also reported that some angry
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