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I'm going to be thinking about this for a while, especially the trustee who said "we have an inherently racist policy." Thanks, as always, for your reporting on this crucial subject.

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Thank you for reading! Yeah, that line upset some of the other trustees!

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The damage this is doing to the quality of Texas public school education, the preparedness and competitiveness of our high school graduates, and the professional educator pool Texas will be able to attract will be felt for decades.

Growing up in Texas in the 50s and 60s, I saw Texas’s national reputation improve, largely due to NASA, Texas Instruments, our research universities…lots of economical growth that translates to strengthening public education.

We’re going backwards…we are seen as a joke.

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I know. It's frustrating and disappointing.

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This is absurd… they didn’t even read them? WTH?

I’ve only personally read three of these, and they all deserve to be read in school (and more broadly).

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Yeah, I think if there's any group of 19 books that can show the dangers of overbroad policies and overzealous efforts to remove books, it's this group.

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