A parent of a child in second grade attending McDowell Mountain Elementary School in the Fountain Hills Unified School District was appalled to discover over 10 books in the classroom library inappropriate for children that age. The parent, informed Fountain Hills City Councilman Allen Skillicorn, who referred to the books “woke” and “sexual.”
“As I finished my parent teacher conferences last week, my attention went to the classroom library section of the room,” a parent wrote in an email to Skillicorn. “I often wonder how teachers pick the books to line their classroom shelves. One particular SECOND GRADE classroom in the Fountain Hills Unified School District had the following books in their classroom library:
- We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom – Protesting & Climate Issues
- It Takes a Village by Hillary Clinton
- Just Ask Be Different Be Brave by Sonia Sotomayor
- Dinosaurs Divorce by Marc Brown
- All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold – celebrates diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Malala’s Magic Pencil by Malala Yousafzai – Activism
- I Am Enough by Grace Byers
- One Big Pair of Underwear by Laura Gehl – Front of book depicts two bears in one pair of underwear
- When an Elephant Falls in Love by Davide Cali – A book about falling in love
She added, “One particular book on the classroom shelf left me speechless. A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo by Marlon Bundo. This book discusses how two boy bunnies were married by a girl cat and her wife and the stink bug who was yelled at for saying, ‘boy bunnies can’t marry boy bunnies.’”
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