Parents fighting to protect children from pornography and propaganda in government schools are making headway, and the effort is spreading.

Bruce Friedman, head of No Left Turn in Education, said Clay County schools have developed a rubric for determining what books are suitable for children.

Friedman is the most redoubtable opponent of the pro-pornography crowd in Florida – and perhaps in the entire nation.

His relentless challenges to unsuitable books have resulted in more than 1,000 being removed or reclassified in Clay County.

“Despite its many shortcomings, this may be the very best rubric in an American public school!” Friedman said.

Blatantly inappropriate books eventually will be relocated to more age-appropriate locations, or making an exit, as a result of these changes, he said.

Books that specifically promote “transgenderism” and those with sexual abuse of children probably are not going to be purchased anymore, he added.

However, Friedman said the rubric still does not address anti-police sentiment and many other harmful aspects of Critical Race Theory.  Also, there is no accompanying procedure showing a timeline for addressing the remaining thousands of poorly selected books, he noted.

Friedman urged the school board to Take advantage of the state Dept. of Education list of all book challenges in Florida.

 “Pull any and all noted books for immediate review by your in-house teams/committees. Don’t wait for the community to challenge it.  Protect our kids now!”

In Duval County, meanwhile, activist Blake Harper says he will pursue book challenges, following the school board’s adoption of a book review policy.

He is recruiting volunteers and will provide them with materials and instructions on challenging books.

People who object to any book in school libraries can challenge the book and it will be reviewed by a committee selected under the new policy.

Administrators in Duval make it needlessly difficult to find unsuitable books. Rather than an accurate central database that could be downloaded, searched and matched with the FDOE list, they force parents to search individual schools for books.

Bureaucratic impediments, however, are unlikely to stop the people who are dedicated to protecting children.

The problem is not confined to school libraries. Public libraries also contain books some find objectionable.

Jack Knocke, an activist in Nassau County, said, “we have exposed that library leadership has rushed 1,000+ radical books into the libraries in the last few years.  The response from county leaders is more focused on controlling access than holding those who did this accountable. 

Concerned about adult material being made available to children in the library, Knocke talked to library officials. He said they promised to take action.

As a project, Knocke used Artificial Intelligence recently to search the library catalogue for tell-tale terms such as “LGBTQ”, “racism” and “witches.”

What he found was a trend. The library system has been adding suspect books at a rapid rate in recent years, which he said coincides with increased hirings of LGBTQ members in the system. This is strong evidence they are using the publicly funded system to spread their liberal beliefs, not only to adults but also to children.

Knocke told Eye on Jacksonville he also has checked the Putnam County library and found a large number of books about witches, which must hold some inexplicable fascination for Putnam residents, or their librarians. 

Knocke’s conclusion: “Your hard-earned tax dollars should fund literature, not activism.” 

Supporting pornography is called “defending intellectual freedom” by liberals. But that kind of sophistry is rejected by parents who are tired of seeing child abuse in government schools.

Liberals employ lame arguments such as “pornography isn’t illegal; obscenity is.”

It doesn’t need to be illegal to be unsuitable for children, and much of it is obscene. Evidence of that is the fact that school boards have silenced parents for reading challenged books at meetings because they were too obscene for adults to hear in public.

They also claim that the books have “artistic value” and thus the obscenity must be overlooked. This is hilarious because they also claim there is no objective definition of pornography. So, what is the objective definition of “artistic value?”

No word games are going to excuse subjecting young children to pornography or obscene material. Liberal parents can buy such material and provide it to their children, rather than exposing other children to it on the taxpayers’ dime.