Scholastic backtracks on policy that separated books on race and gender
Scholastic has reversed a decision to allow school districts running book fairs to exclude books about race and gender after facing widespread criticism.
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Scholastic has reversed a decision to allow school districts running book fairs to exclude books about race and gender after facing widespread criticism.
Scholastic faced backlash for putting books dealing with race, gender and sexuality in their own optional category for middle school book fairs. It's now apologizing and working to reverse course.
Scholastic was poised to provide elementary schools with the option of whether or not to expose children to a special collection containing some works of identitarian and LGBT propaganda. Following weeks of pressure from activist groups keen on depriving schools across the nation of such a choice,...
Scholastic will no longer make it optional for schools to include a selection of books about diversity in school book fairs.
The publisher had said it would segregate books with themes on race and gender at school fairs in order to navigate a rash of bans across the country.