Thursday, March 16, 2023

"We Are Professionals," Said Gun-Violence Pusher Librarian

There's enough arrogance in this old prune to put any US Senator to shame.

A public school district in Wisconsin recently added a fantasy book series to its e-library about a group of students' plot to assassinate their teacher, drawing criticism from a parent in the district. 

Elmbrook Schools' librarians included five books from the "Assassination Classroom" series in its e-library starting with the 2021-2022 school year. The science fiction "manga" series, which is a type of comic or graphic novel originating from Japan, documents the repeated attempts by a group of students to assassinate their alien teacher, and includes sexualized content and pictures of students bringing guns and knives into class.

"Ever caught yourself screaming, ‘I could just kill that teacher?’ What would it take to justify such antisocial behavior and weeks of detention?" the Amazon description of the series reads. ...

Some parents raised objections to this stuff.  Aside from the guns-and-knives stuff, there are depictions of large-breasted student "assassins" straddling a male figure.

...Kay Koepsel-Benning, Elmbrook's Director of Library Services told a parent whose child attends high school in the district in an email that "context is always important"...

 ...The parent also raised concerns that the district might be promoting gun violence against teachers by including the series, but Koepsel-Benning described this claim as "inaccurate," adding that the district librarians "are professionals promoting reading and learning, working day in and day out serving our learning community."...

In the 1970's, Elmbrook schools had an earned reputation for scholastic excellence.  They've managed to remain pretty good at academics, but the moral and philosophical underpinning for such performance is gone.  That District is the Picture of Dorian Gray.

And it's the 'professionals' who are 'working day in and day out'* to ruin those children. 

*One more thing, Kay:  PARENTS work day in and day out, too.  Are you really so arrogant as to imagine that you are the hardest-working person in all of Elmbrook?  Really??

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