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.

  • Tja@programming.dev
    20·
    10 months ago

    They should ban the bilble like some other districts did. There is sex, murder, incest and all kinds of inappropriate content in there. Makes conservatives go nuts.

    • macrocephalic@lemmy.world
      4·
      10 months ago

      Banning it would annoy them, but if they all just went missing without any fanfare then they wouldn’t notice; very few of them read it.

    • Asafum@feddit.nl
      2·
      10 months ago

      DeSantis makes the law, counties follow the law, the Bible gets banned.

      Fox news: LiBeRaLs ArE bAnNiNg ThE bIbLe!!