Bartlett resident Tam Kelley complains about a book titled "You Know, Sex" during a Conway Public Library Trustees meeting on March 21. (DAYMOND STEER PHOTO)
Bartlett resident Tam Kelley complains about a book titled "You Know, Sex" during a Conway Public Library Trustees meeting on March 21. (DAYMOND STEER PHOTO)
CONWAY — A Bartlett woman has been banned for a year from the Conway Public Library after being accused of taking a sex education book from the children's room without checking it out. The accusation came after she complained it was too explicit for the children's room.
At a Conway Public Library Trustees meeting March 21, a woman who identified herself as Tam Kelley of Bartlett complained that the book “You Know, Sex: Bodies, Gender, Puberty, and Other Things,” by Cory Silverberg, was just too sexually explicit to be readily available for viewing in the downstairs children's room. Along with Kelley, over a dozen other area residents attended the trustees' meeting to voice concerns about the book.
Parents who don't wantxtheir children reading books at the library should go to the library and approve what their children are trying to check out or read while there. It's called parenting. We all have different ideas about what we think our kids should be exposed to, which is why we need to be involved for our OWN children. There are books I wouldn't want my child or grandchild to read, but I shouldn't make that decision for someone else's children.
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Parents who don't wantxtheir children reading books at the library should go to the library and approve what their children are trying to check out or read while there. It's called parenting. We all have different ideas about what we think our kids should be exposed to, which is why we need to be involved for our OWN children. There are books I wouldn't want my child or grandchild to read, but I shouldn't make that decision for someone else's children.
Groomers and pervs, that's who supports these books.
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