Identical by ellen hopkins5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a process that includes authors, publishers, outside consultants, the Ministry of Education, school boards, librarians and teachers. The selection process is filled with a series of checks and balances, which starts as writers work with publishers, and finishes with a local decision to include the book in a school’s collection. ![]() ![]() This type of exchange, happening in school board meetings across Ontario, has brought attention to how books and textbooks end up in schools. The presenter could not give any context for the passage he read, and gave conflicting answers about how he came across the book. However, the argument lost steam after later questions revealed the book, “Identical” by Ellen Hopkins, is only available to high school students and was never in elementary schools. Last week, a parent at a Waterloo Region District School Board meeting read a passage from a book available to high school students, to make an argument about age-appropriateness, and the types of books available in elementary schools. KITCHENER - A social and political movement to ban books dealing with sexual identity, sexual content and race in schools in the United States is creeping into school board meetings in Ontario. ![]()
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