News from Agape Press | Libraries' 'Parenting Collection' Policy Falls Short of Protecting Children, Group Contends: "Libraries in the Oklahoma City-County system will now have a 'Parenting Collection,' where they will keep books on alternative lifestyles, sex, and drug use. However, Lynn Rahman of the group Oklahomans for School Accountability believes more could be done to protect children from objectionable material.
Rahman says the Commission members are 'trying to allay fears without really making an actual move.' A bigger and more effective step for the library system officials to take would be to actually move the books from the children's section, she insists, 'not just to a higher shelf, because children can take books down and they can leave them laying around on tables and everywhere else, and a parent could simply do the same thing.'
Among the 37 children's books in the Parenting Collection is King and King, an illustrated storybook featuring two princes who get married and share a kiss at the story's end. Other books in the collection address many sensitive topics, including homosexuality and premarital sex.
Rahman feels the Library Commission's policy of moving the controversial books to higher shelves does not adequately protect children since anyone who uses the book in the library could easily leave it unshelved and it would 'just be lying there anyway, in the same section.'
Besides, the Oklahomans for School Accountability spokeswoman notes, parents are wrong to think the problem of inappropriate materials is isolated to public libraries. 'The school library has just as many bad books, if not more, than the public library,' she contends."
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Shows you can't please everyone. Personally, I think it was a good compromise.
I think some folks don't want to compromise though...that's why there's no pleasin' going on.
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