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mahatmakanejeeves

(64,681 posts)
Thu May 12, 2022, 09:53 AM May 2022

Do you recall that the Brooklyn Public Library was offering school kids free library cards?

So that they could check out e-books that had been banned where they live and read them on mobile devices?

You didn't think someone would try to get e-reader apps banned, did you?

FreshMouthHat Retweeted

Big dive from
@David_Ingram
here:

nbcnews.com
Some parents now want e-reader apps banned – and they're getting results
Campaigns that started with criticizing school board members and librarians have now turned their attention to tech companies such as OverDrive and Epic


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Do you recall that the Brooklyn Public Library was offering school kids free library cards? (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves May 2022 OP
Instead of dumping these issues on tax payers, parents need to step up, and do more policing SWBTATTReg May 2022 #1
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SWBTATTReg

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1. Instead of dumping these issues on tax payers, parents need to step up, and do more policing
Thu May 12, 2022, 10:00 AM
May 2022

of their children, be more involved in what they check out, read, etc., it's not the job of the rest of us to do this. Parents need to take on more responsibility, for it looks like once again, they are putting the blame for their failures in watching what their children are doing onto the rest of us.

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