"I regret that the students in the class, and now many other students and families, have been subjected to this inappropriate material. Counseling support is and will continue to be made available for any student impacted by this incident."
Superintendent Adams later said, "the administration immediately initiated—and is continuing to conduct—a thorough investigation into this matter. I want to assure you that we take all aspects of student safety seriously."
See also:
Greene, Rebecca. “Paramus Superintendent: Teacher Did Not Know Inappropriate Material Could Be Seen by Students.” TAPintoParamus, February 13, 2023. https://www.tapinto.net/towns/paramus/sections/education/articles/paramus-superintendent-teacher-did-not-know-inappropriate-material-could-be-seen-by-students.
Media reports that the "racy images" were of women in underwear:
Hickey, James. “Paramus Teacher on Leave After Inappropriate Images Shown in Class.” North-JerseyNews.Com (blog), February 14, 2023. https://north-jerseynews.com/2023/02/14/paramus-teacher-on-leave-after-inappropriate-images-shown-in-class/.
While this is an appropriate response to an event like this, it’s hard to ignore the elephant in the room. In New Jersey and across the country, parents have been fighting to remove s3xually inappropriate books from school libraries where their minor children attend.
In Roxbury, NJ, the high school librarian, Roxana Caivano, pictured top right, has selected Gender Queer, Let's Talk About It, This Book is Gay, Flamer, Fun Home and many others. Recently, Gender Queer was challenged and after careful review by Caivano, the Administration, and one anonymous parent, it was decided it should remain in the library, with no restrictions "because it's a memoir."
If images of women in underwear are considered "racy," "inappropriate," a threat to student "safety" and a cause for increased counseling, what does that say about images of a woman sucking a strap on? Or full frontal nudity combined with every s3x act you can imagine? Or a 14 year old preparing to masturbate?
This seems like an admission that images can be dangerous and unhealthy, yet our schools are allowing librarians to endanger our children every day. These are prominently displayed books and librarians are luring minors in with their enticing "banned books" displays. What's the difference between Paramus students and Roxbury students that one group deserves protection from adults providing s3xually inappropriate material and the other does not?
It’s banned books week and I want to remind everyone to exercise your right to read what you want. https://t.co/7XlSsBHttA
— Roxbury Media (@roxburymedia) September 19, 2022
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Author of the above: Christina Balestriere is available to media at ChristinaBalestriere at gmail dot com. She's a mother of three Roxbury students and former teacher member of Roxbury Parental Rights in Education.
She has provided me with an email she received from Roxana Caivano, the "media specialist" who is also on the Roxbury Public Library Board of Directors. The email states:
Mrs. Balestriere,First of all, let me apologize for not getting back to you sooner. The start of school has been very hectic and I wanted to make sure that my response to you had my full attention.Yes, I do have all the titles you listed, and yes, I have read them all myself. The District has a selection process for choosing books which require our books to be chosen based on readership level, content, and quality. Each of the books you mentioned are on level, promote personal choice, and have received starred reviews and awards from trusted industry journals and organizations. I also comply with all NJ State Laws which dictate we provide books that are diverse and promote inclusivity. I do read all reviews and summaries of books before purchasing.As your child will not be at the High School for quite some time, I cannot predict what will be in the library by the time they get here. As a Public School, it is our mission to create a collection that reflects the community as a whole, and mirrors the diversity of the community. While you may find some titles questionable for your child, another family may encourage their children to read those books. It is a matter of personal choice.Roxana CaivanoSchool Librarian, Roxbury High School
This media specialist, Roxana Caivano, graduate of Roxbury High School, County College of Morris, College of Saint Elizabeth, Fairleigh Dickinson University, and finally New Jersey City University with a Master of Educational Technology, School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist, somehow happens to hold that same beliefs as the child groomers at American Library Association, and she's both a school librarian and a member of the board of trustees at the Roxbury Public Library. How convenient—for the groomers.
Oh, did I say "groomer"? It is what it is, and here's what it is:
Rose, Judith. “‘Groomer’ Is NOT an Anti-LGBTQ Slur.” Gays Against Groomers, November 3, 2022. https://www.gaysagainstgroomers.com/post/groomer-is-not-an-anti-lgbtq-slur.
And, by the way, American Library Association is now an openly Marxist organization:
Kleinman, Dan. “Openly Marxist American Library Association Needs To Be Defunded.” SafeLibraries® (blog), January 30, 2023. https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2023/01/openly-marxist-ala.html.
Roxana Caivano said above, "I also comply with all NJ State Laws which dictate we provide books that are diverse and promote inclusivity." American Library Association trains school librarians that even though librarians know certain books like "Gender Queer" contain s3xually inappropriate material for school children, librarians are to get over their personal revulsion to giving such material to children and just "reframe" the material as diverse and inclusive. The very words Roxana Caivano used, "books that are diverse and promote inclusivity"—what a coincidence. That's called grooming. If you know something is wrong for children and can be removed from schools under the Board of Education v. Pico case, let alone common sense and community standards, but you are "reframing" it as diversity and inclusion to get around that US Supreme Court case and personal aversion, that's grooming.
Specifically, American Library Association's lawyer/leader of its Office for Intellectual Freedom and its Freedom to Read Foundation said during training for librarians and media specialists:
But ultimately, we found that the thing that needs to happen most, and it needs to happen before these bills are introduced, is sustained uh messaging that reframes this issue um that uh that takes it away from the idea that these are inappropriate for minors, or s3xually inappropriate for minors, and promotes them as diverse materials and programming that are about inclusion, fairness, and protection of everybody's right to see themselves, and their families reflected in the books in the public library.
✂️ American Library Association Admits Some School Books Are “S3xually Inappropriate for Minors” So Are Reframed as “Diverse” and “Inclusive.” Webinar: Banned Books Uncensored: LGBTQIA+ Stories & Gender Identity, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxkMJFBkH5IFLMAaQaDR1iups-9FDZ5tNj.
Board of Education v. Pico, by the way, allows for pervasively vulgar materials to be removed from schools immediately. No need for any reviews, let alone the long, drawn out one Roxbury suffered while school children remained s3xualized, and indeed continue to be s3xualized to this day.
Board of Ed., Island Trees Union Free School Dist. No. 26 v. Pico, 457 US 853 (Supreme Court 1982). https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=11432514393725128521
I'm not saying Roxana Caivano is a groomer. I'm just pointing out this person in a position of influence in the public school and the public library, educated in New Jersey, even in the very school where she works, just happens to believe and promote the exact same harmful views as the groomers from the Chicago, IL, based American Library Association. Essentially, Roxana Caivano is elevating the interests of the Chicago's American Library Association and steamrolling over the Roxbury community and the US Supreme Court.
No one in Roxbury wants school children to have access to known s3xually inappropriate material that's been simply "reframed" as diversity and inclusion. But, led by Roxana Caivano in service to ALA, such materials are now available to Roxbury students at will. ALA has, via Caivano, asserted full control. Roxbury school children will continue to be s3xualized, all while people stand back and let it happen because Roxana Caivano fooled them with diversity and inclusion. The school board's decision must be reversed and the book and others like it should be removed per Board of Education v. Pico—and per common sense.
Interest in setting aside Roxbury interests and instead promoting external, harmful interests can be seen when Roxana Caivano repeats the mantra, "As a Public School, it is our mission to create a collection that ... mirrors the diversity of the community." Diversity, the magic word. Such a laudable goal. Only "diversity" means something different to groomers. It means a method to mislead people into accepting s3xually inappropriate material for children that librarians never used to give to students, but they do now. Caivano/ALA's definition of "diversity" means the US Supreme Court Pico case is meaningless, powerless, overturned by librarians. In Roxbury, Pico got nullified by Roxana Caivano. That's the diversity Caivano has brought to Roxbury. Lawlessness. Roxbury's children are the target.
DEI Explained by Dr. James Lindsay of New Discourses, 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKLuhY2Q7Rw.
Diversity: A Translation from the Wokish | James Lindsay, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsVDWuQYzxs.
Inclusion: A Translation from the Wokish | James Lindsay, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFREDFSGZxo.
Diversity & Inclusion redefined. In addition to skin colors, it now also means having p0rn books in school libraries so that young children can be exposed to “diverse” ideas to expand their horizons. https://t.co/a8r2EGMTDx
— Xi Van Fleet (@XVanFleet) February 18, 2023
That's what Roxana Caivano is saying when she writes that "Gender Queer" and the other s3xually inappropriate material for school children is "diverse" and "inclusive," just as she was trained by American Library Association to do.
There are other coded messages within what Roxana Caivano wrote that exactly mirror American Library Association diktat. But I've said enough for now.
The Roxbury school boards decision to keep the s3xually inappropriate material in place in the school is directly harming Roxbury children and will for years, all for someone's goal of s3xualizing children. I urge Roxbury parents and political leaders to dig deeply into why Roxbury children have been allowed to continue reading s3xually inappropriate material, then launch a lawsuit to get the pervasively vulgar books removed from the school per the Pico case.
18A:12-24.1(f) Code of Ethics for School Board Members says, "I will refuse to surrender my independent judgment to special interest or partisan political groups or to use the schools for personal gain or for the gain of friends." Isn't that what the school board (and municipality) has done by following special interest ALA diktat via the Roxana Caivano filter and not Pico, community standards, and just plain common sense? Are we just going to let the school librarians and teachers keep giving the kids pervasively vulgar books—because of "diversity" and "inclusion"?
Roxbury people should file a lawsuit against the Roxbury school and its municipal government that does nothing to stop this. And if there's a way to challenge any teaching certificate for Roxana Caivano, do that too. Or sit back all let Roxbury children continue to be s3xualized in school.
There's hope for you yet, Roxbury. Coming to you straight from Maine, a school board voted to keep "Gender Queer" then, after residents complained, voted again, this time to get rid of it:
Hutchinson, Marianne. “Dixfield-Based School Board Bans Gender Book from Dirigo Library; RSU 56 Directors Voted 7-2 to Remove ‘Gender Queer: A Memoir’ from the High School Shelves.” Lewiston Sun Journal (blog), August 10, 2022. https://www.sunjournal.com/2022/08/10/dixfield-based-school-board-bans-gender-book-from-dirigo-library/.
Farrin, Bruce. “Three Women Appeal Decision to Keep Controversial Book on Dirigo High School’s Library Shelves; a Request to Remove ‘Gender Queer: A Memoir’ Was Made This Spring.” Lewiston Sun Journal (blog), June 29, 2022. https://www.sunjournal.com/2022/06/29/three-women-appeal-decision-to-keep-controversial-book-on-dirigo-high-schools-library-shelves/.
McKenna contacted Superintendent/Principal Pam Doyen, who confirmed that the book was in the school.“So I sent my husband to the store to buy this book, and I read it from cover to cover. … My problems with this lie with all the s3xual, disgusting details in this book,” she said.Along with the book, McKenna brought to the podium a 20-year-old copy of Penthouse magazine.
She said both have a lot in common. “The only difference is, this one is about a transgender, and this one (Penthouse) is about everybody.”She said “Gender Queer: A Memoir” goes into great detail about the author’s s3xual fantasies, including one about masturbating while she is driving.“I think it’s absolutely absurd that that is in a book in our school when we are teaching our children that it is OK to masturbate while they drive,” she said.McKenna noted, “I don’t care who you are — if you are a man, a woman, if you’re any part of the alphabet — what your s3xuality is. Why you would think that any of this — gay s3x, straight s3x, fantasies, masturbating, strap-ons, dildos — any of it, has a place in school. It’s not educational at all!”She said when she read the book she ran out of post-its labeling all the s3xual pictures.“I would never have thought I’d be standing before a bunch of adults trying to explain and defend that this doesn’t belong in a school,” she said. “I don’t even know why we’re having this conversation!”She concluded by saying, “My job as a parent does not involve educating a bunch of adults who are in charge of buying, purchasing, approving materials for our students that are supposed to be solely for educational purposes. It’s not my place to educate you on what you’re supposed to be getting for our children.”Cole said she believes p0rnographic and s3xually explicit materials are not made for adolescents and they should not have any access to them, whether it’s schools or other places.“I feel it is absolutely disgusting, and beyond, that we have to come here tonight and take time off our family life, and fight over a book that everybody should know should not be in the schools,” she said.
NOTE ADDED 29 MARCH 2023:
This publication has been included in a defamation lawsuit by Roxana Caivano and her husband:
- Caivano v. Seretis, Morris County Superior Court, NJ, MRS-L-000485-23 (17 March 2023):
Remember, American Library Association directs librarians to file defamation suits against parents who complain.
NOTE ADDED 26 APRIL 2023:
This publication has been included in media:
Burns, Vianella. “Morris Librarian Defamed Over LGBTQ Books, Lawsuit Says; The Roxbury High School Librarian Has Filed a Lawsuit Against a Group of Residents Following Alleged Attacks Accusing Her of Child Abuse.” Madison NJ Patch, April 26, 2023. https://patch.com/new-jersey/morristown/morris-librarian-defamed-over-lgbtq-books-lawsuit-says.
Therein, it states as follows:
On the virtual blog, SafeLibraries, which is operated by the non-party publisher Dan Kleinman, Balestriere published a note saying, "These are prominently displayed books and librarians are luring minors in with their enticing 'banned books' displays."
If that is the basis for suing, then that's pure vexatious litigation as librarians regularly talk about, even brag about, creating enticing "banned books" displays to lure in more children. Here's an example from ALA's own website:
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