- As trained professionals, librarians are in the best position to help everyone, Ewa says. They have teaching certificates and librarian certificates so they are "dually certified." Sounds good, but she leaves out A.) ALA requires MLIS degrees to "infuse concepts of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion throughout the standards." See: https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2024/03/mlis-degrees-are-woke.html. B.) She also leaves out that ALA bragged to the Biden administration how librarians are better than teachers at indoctrinating school students because they have the children for years whereas the teachers have them for only a class. See: (citation will be added when I recall where I put it). C.) She also leaves out "the library and information services profession's commitment to racial and social justice ... diversity and inclusion as one of the profession's core values." See: https://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2021/07/ala-adopts-new-code-ethics-principle-racial-and-social-justice So yes, they are trained, but librarianship is a job, not a profession, and the training requires diversity, equity, and inclusion in all topics, and we all know what DEI really means. D.) She also leaves out that ALA policy is all material for all ages: "Library policies and procedures that effectively deny minors equal and equitable access to all library resources available to other users violate the Library Bill of Rights. The American Library Association opposes all attempts to restrict access to library services, materials, and facilities based on the age of library users." See: https://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/minors. So the NJASL leader tells you librarians are trained but leaves out they are trained to provide any material at any age. Does this match the community standards of New Jersey parents? Is this common sense? Is there a reason parental rights should be overturned in NJ to assuage the feelings of people from Chicago who think children should get anything at any age? E.) And that "task force" NJASL created? It's to "force" parents and legislators to cede control of NJ school and children to a politically-motivated outside organization from Chicago, IL. That's the task force. Any parents who step out of line are gang rushed, like the parents intimidated from even attending a public meeting about the issue they raised in Glen Ridge, NJ. I was the only person who spoke in favor of those parents, and even afterwards the NJ ACLU decided to deride me for doing so. That's the effect of the "task force" about which she brags that bully parents so much they fear even attending open public meetings.
- "We d- don't come up with these recommendations and with the- these books out of thin air." False. School policies substantially match the model policies made up in Chicago, IL. This whole Freedom to Read Act S2421 is essentially a giant recommendation from Chicago, IL. It even replaced a previous attempt called the Right to Read Act that specifically named ALA's "Library Bill of Rights" and required that it become NJ law. That got shot down and reformed as the Freedom to Read Act, only the explicit inclusion of the "Library Bill of Rights" was excluded. But the ideas are all the same in the new act, just without the explicit reference, and with more teeth. And books out of thin air? Gender Queer was a book written for adults and sales lagged for two years until ALA found it and gave it two awards, including one specifically for kids. Now it's in nearly every school, as if summoned out of thin air. No, actually, ALA creates lists of books like this or gives them awards and all those books go right into the schools because everyone trusts librarians, and all from ALA in Chicago, IL, about which the NJASL leader acts innocent and claims librarians are only responding to NJ educational requirements. Super deceptive.
- "[O]ur biggest problem here right now is that a lot of school districts are not following their school policies and are not following the state standards and laws." Okay, perhaps. So if that's the problem, why is there a need for a law to force a school board to accept a policy it's not going to follow anyway? Because S2421 A3446 is a giant power grab, that's why. They are grabbing the power from New Jersey parents, giving it to Illinois librarians who "oppose[] all attempts to restrict access to library services, materials, and facilities based on the age of library users," then getting NJ legislators to pass it into NJ law. And into law in state after state as ALA tries to push this nationwide.
- Ewa then digs into her biggest lie of all: that no parents should have the right to control what the children of other parents are reading. And we hear books are "lifesaving" for that one special kid so all the kids have to read the "lifesaving" books. "Lifesaving," you know, like Gender Queer and its guidance to see kink dot com, you know, that kind of "lifesaving," and all kids have to read that. Can you see why this is so deceptive? Can you see the huge lie? It sounds so good. It sounds correct. Of course no parent should tell another parent what his child should or should not read. Of course. Only that's not the issue. The issue is not parents dictating what books other families should allow their kids. Not once has a parent ever removed a single book from a school library, short of theft. The reality is parents have the right under the First Amendment to bring concerns to the government, in this case the school board, then it's the school board that makes the decisions, not the parents. So arguing, "I would say to those parents, if you are not comfortable for your child to read that, you have the right to do it, but you cannot make this decision for all of the children," sounds great but it is intentionally false. It is a well-honed lie to mislead people. And the "lifesaving" lie is the icing on the cake. We are supposed to think all children should be exposed to inappropriate material that could be removed under the law just so one super troubled youth might read something that maybe makes him feel a little better about himself. Fine. That's what public libraries are for. School libraries are not public libraries. School libraries are not for anything-goes, especially simply because the anything-goes people from Chicago, IL, organize "task forces" to intimidate people into allowing their children to be exposed to harm and to intimidate legislators into making it law.
- Another lie the NJASL leader pushes is how data shows school librarians "increase all kinds of state sc- uh s- scores in, in all state standards." Scores are dropping everywhere as DEI gets pressed into every subject. Math proficiency in Chicago, for example, is 0% in all classes. The kids are experts on pronouns, microaggressions, and white supremacy, but reading, science, and mathematics scores are falling off a cliff nationwide—at the same time ALA is making DEI one of its "core values." So librarians are not "increas[ing] all kinds of state sc- uh s- scores in, in all state standards." Just the opposite. And there's the Freedom to Read Act praising librarians: "school library media specialists and librarians are trained to curate and develop collections." No, they are not. They are trained to follow Chicago ALA's orders: "The American Library Association opposes all attempts to restrict access to library services, materials, and facilities based on the age of library users." This is precisely why schools are awash with inappropriate material, why parents oppose this, why Chicago's ALA wants New Jersey legislators to pass into law Chicago's rules, and why the NJASL leader is flat out lying in a deceptive way that sounds good but it really hiding the real goal.
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Help the New Jersey Association of School Librarians (NJASL) to put an end to book bans in schools and public libraries by contacting your New Jersey Assembly Member and state Senator and asking them to co-sponsor Sen. Zwicker's Freedom to Read bill. .... Please join the New Jersey Association of School Librarians (NJASL) and SWEEP NJ to send a message to the Assembly and Senate Leadership that New Jersey should protect the Freedom to Read.
https://www.saveschoollibrarians.org/njaslbookbans
Help the New Jersey Association of School Librarians (NJASL) to put an end to book bans in schools and public libraries by contacting your New Jersey Assembly Member and state Senator and asking them to co-sponsor Sen. Zwicker's Freedom to Read bill. .... Please join the New Jersey Association of School Librarians (NJASL) and SWEEP NJ to send a message to the Assembly and Senate Leadership that New Jersey should protect the Freedom to Read.
4(b): “the commissioner shall consult with the State Librarian and the New Jersey Association of School Librarians….”
I am writing to ask you to co-sponsor the New Jersey "Freedom to Read" bill, S2421 and A3446, sponsored by Senator Andrew Zwicker, Senator Teresa Ruiz, and Assemblywoman Mitchelle Drulis. It is a comprehensive, affirmative bill that would protect the right to read in public libraries and school libraries across New Jersey. Censorship is on the rise in our state, and the freedom to read is under threat across the country. The time to act is now. Please co-sponsor this important legislation and preserve the right to read for every resident of our state.
The enemy is at the gate. American Library Association, via its group EveryLibrary, is now directly pushing for #njleg #njsen #njpol to push @ALALibrary anything-goes for school kids into NJ schools.@Aikens_Josh @BillSpadea @CoboKristen @JrzyJoePiscopo @waltkane @vingopal https://t.co/WXu0ZFLrQa
— Dan Kleinman of SafeLibraries® (@SexHarassed) March 22, 2024
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Thank you for all of the detailed info and analysis. Defund the ALA. America's children deserve better!
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