1. United States
2. S.C.
3. Letter

Under State Superintendent Ellen Weaver's Regulation 43-170, the State School Board has implemented county wide and state wide book bans. Stop trying to ban books to "protect kids". Books don’t hurt kids, and we don't trust the State's intentions here. If the State truly cared about children's safety, they would want to protect kids in general. Guns hurt kids, and yet the State of SC seem pretty okay with them, so stop pretending this is about protecting the children. This is about political and religious ideology. Allow professionals like librarians to work with parents, kids, and teachers to find the best books for each child. Just because a book isn't suited to one child doesn't mean no child should have access to that book. Parents should and do have control over the book their children read and check out at their public libraries. That's how libraries work. If parents want to speak to their child's school librarian. A librarian can make sure that a child isn't bringing home books that individual parents are not okay with. That's how libraries work. You can't have democracy or freedom in a state that bans books based off of religious or political ideology. That is not how it works. Stop book bans in South Carolina!