Parents gathered outside the Fairfax County School Board meeting on Thursday, voicing their opposition to what they term pedophilia and “porn in schools” after Fairfax County Public Schools reintroduced two books containing depictions of sexual activity.
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“They’ve doubled down on porn in the schools. They’ve all got to go,” Stacy Langton, the Fairfax County mother who confronted the school board with images from the books in September, told Fox News. “Who’s in favor of porn in the schools?”
Parents protested outside of Luther Jackson Middle School, holding signs reading, “No porn in our schools,” wearing t-shirts reading, “Mama Grizzly” and “Papa Grizzly,” and holding signs featuring the photos of school board members with the text, “Resign FairfaXXX.”
Thursday marks the first school board meeting since FCPS reintroduced the controversial books. “Lawn Boy” by Jonathan Evison includes long sections of a boy reminiscing about explicit experiences he had at 10 years old, and “Gender Queer: A Memoir,” by Maia Kobabe includes photos of sexual acts between a boy and a man.
Fairfax County Public Schools announced that it had restored the books to libraries after two committees — consisting of librarians, administrators, parents and students — had reviewed them. The committees claimed the books are not obscene and do not contain pedophilia.
“We’re here because we don’t want any porn in the schools,” Angela Boyer, whose daughter graduated from a Fairfax public school, told Fox News outside the board meeting. “We’re sick of them trying to put labels on it and call it what it isn’t. Stop playing word semantic games. It’s ridiculous and insulting.”
“As a parent of kids that go to Fairfax County schools, it doesn’t matter if it’s ‘Lawn Boy,’ gay sex, straight sex, it shouldn’t be in schools,” Justin, a father of two, told Fox News. “We don’t need to be paying tax dollars for sexual books.”
“The school board is failing our children,” Maria Sherwell, a mother of two children in FCPS schools, told Fox News.
“The attendance is down, the grades are down, children are being subjected to sexual surveys that are completely out of line,” she said, referring to an official FCPS survey asking… (Read more)
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