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- Trouble in censorville : the far right's assault on public education -- and the teachers who are fighting back / by Kalin, Nadine M.,editor.; Modrak, Rebekah,editor.;
Includes bibliographical references.Foreword: The fight to save public education / Jonathan Friedman -- An introduction / Nadine M. Kalin and Rebekah Modrak -- It didn't begin with Trump: The attack on public education - A timeline / Nadine M. Kalin and Rebekah Modrak -- A note to the reader -- They decided they didn't like the way I looked / Monica Coles -- "Debauching the morals of minors." / Martha Hickson -- Trump got elected and allowed everybody to be hateful / Sally Middleton -- I was the first tenured teacher in the state of Tennessee to be dismissed when the right wing weaponized CRT / Matthew D. Hawn -- I feel like I live on the verge of tears / Julie Miller -- If you're a teacher in the state of Kentucky and you're following the law, you're causing people harm / Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr. -- A well-funded, well-backed push to privatize public education / Misty L.C. -- I'm still having panic attacks because of how everything was handled / Gavin Downing -- I promise to speak the truth / Ellen Barnes -- I refuse to be silenced / Elissa Malespina -- I couldn't believe the things people I've known my entire life were saying about me / Melissa Grandi Statz -- This isn't about banning books. It's about triggering people / Carolyn Foote -- I see the kids that need to feel seen / Jill James -- The same dog whistles about parental choice, going all the way back to Brown v. Board of Education / Mark Johnson -- Call to Action: What you can do to resist attacks on public education."From Florida, whose "Don't Say Gay" law prohibits K-12 instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation, to Texas, which is shuttering libraries in schools, America is in the middle of a far-right war on public education. Now, for the first time, K-12 educators from across the nation give readers a teacher's-eye view of the radical right crusade to take down public education, coordinated by well-funded, well-connected far-right political interests. Christian nationalists hell-bent on erasing the line between church and state, white supremacists opposed to a curriculum that teaches the enduring effects of anti-Black racism, political action committees, such as Moms for Liberty, calling for the banning of novels featuring LGBTQ+ people, and profiteers eager to divert taxpayer dollars into private schools are mounting a relentless attack on teachers, the students they serve, and the commitment to public education that is a cornerstone of democracy. "It's a phenomenal, unprecedented moment that we're in," says a librarian, recently retired from her Texas school. "It's surprising how many people don't know what's going on. I talk to reporters who have no idea. And they're reporters." In Trouble in Censorville, public school teachers from states as far-flung as Florida, Texas, Kentucky, New Jersey, Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Washington describe, in their own words, being threatened, stalked, doxxed, ostracized, smeared as "pedophiles" and "Marxists," placed on leave, and fired for teaching historical truth and racial justice, supporting LGBTQ+ students and, in one case, for wearing "insufficiently" feminine attire. Their stories bring readers face-to-face with the human cost of these attacks, which range from social isolation to pent-up anger over institutional betrayal to the terrible toll on teachers' mental and physical health"--- Subjects: Censorship.; Challenged books.; Intellectual freedom; Libraries; Right-wing extremists; Schools;
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