School district bans the dictionary to comply with Ron DeSantis’s book-ban law - eviltoast
Dictionaries contain words that potentially violate the law's broad language...

A Florida school district has literally banned the dictionary in an effort to comply with Gov. Ron DeSantis‘s ® book-banning law.

The Escambia County School District has reportedly removed over 2800 books from library shelves as they undergo a review process that will determine if they are inappropriate for students, according to Popular Information. Among the books currently relegated to storage are The American Heritage Children’s Dictionary, Webster’s Dictionary for Students, and Merriam-Webster’s Elementary Dictionary.

The district contends these texts could violate H.B. 1069, which DeSantis signed into law in May 2023.

  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    Yeah kids are probably bummed they can’t check out the dictionary. Maybe they can find an alternative way to look up words though.

      • Halosheep@lemm.ee
        1·
        10 months ago

        Brother, we have this fancy new invention called “the internet”. You can literally go to any search engine and type “define: whatever word here” and boom, the definition and hundreds of online dictionaries will be RIGHT THERE.