Lessons from a book controversy in Montgomery County, Texas I. “We’re done taking it, we’re taking a stand, and it starts tonight” Before Cassandra Crowe came to the podium at a Conroe ISD school board meeting this May, she had given the trustees in front of her a seventy-seven-page packet that contained excerpted passages from 35 books that she called obscene, “according to Texas law, not my opinion.” Now she had a demand for the board: “We respectfully request that the following books be removed from CISD circulation in libraries as well as classrooms effective immediately, and this list is not exhaustive, while these books are under a formal review.”
35 Books in Conroe ISD
35 Books in Conroe ISD
35 Books in Conroe ISD
Lessons from a book controversy in Montgomery County, Texas I. “We’re done taking it, we’re taking a stand, and it starts tonight” Before Cassandra Crowe came to the podium at a Conroe ISD school board meeting this May, she had given the trustees in front of her a seventy-seven-page packet that contained excerpted passages from 35 books that she called obscene, “according to Texas law, not my opinion.” Now she had a demand for the board: “We respectfully request that the following books be removed from CISD circulation in libraries as well as classrooms effective immediately, and this list is not exhaustive, while these books are under a formal review.”