This newsletter is dedicated to showing why our district desperately needs the Parental Consent Area created in district policy EFB(LOCAL).

This "parent consent only" area will be reserved for library materials that are pervasively vulgar, obscene, or that adopt, support, or promote racist ideologies that have already been prohibited by law.

In this newsletter, we will focus only on books that we think violate obscenity law as defined by the Texas Penal Code.

This novel features very graphic and explicit sex scenes, child sex (ejaculation with semen dripping down her leg), blow jobs (she describes the taste of the semen), vibrator use (she describes a painful orgasm), and various other erotica. Available at CHHS & GHS.

This autobiography features adult and child molestation and sex. It normalizes pedophilia. The grandmother molests the child while he cries, holding his hands protectively between his legs. She tells her grandson to hold still. Later, the Uncle gropes his niece, then goes to jerk off. The mother tells the girls that sexual assault is a crime of perception. "If you don't think you're hurt, then you aren't" (Ch. 41). Available at CHHS & GHS.

This book features graphic sex scenes with children, rape, forced blow jobs, and child sex. The girl says "no" repeatedly while she cries, but her cries are stifled by his penis in her mouth. In another scene when two boys are together, the one who assumes the role of the female cries uncontrollably until the other boy tells him he should just pretend he is "passed out." Available at CHHS & GHS.

Repeated scenes of pedophilia between a father and his little girl. A character continuously speaks of his sexual desire for "little girls" and describes this desire as more pure than that for a full grown woman. This book has explicit child abuse and well as graphic sexual and explicit content with children. It was also part of the GCISD curriculum until the 2022 school year. Available at CHHS & GHS.

Explicit act of intercourse repeatedly described. She's "breathless" because she's sucking in air while he penetrates her. Bleeding hymen, dripping semen, fear of pregnancy, condom use, etc. "Virginity is a heteronormative, patriarchal construct" (p. 153). Available at GHS.

Trustees Who Voted to SUPPORT Parent Rights

• The 4 conservative trustees on our board approved the updated library policy that requires parent consent before viewing these materials.
• The conservatives are Casey Ford, Shannon Braun, Kathy Spradley, and Tammy Nakamura.
• If you wish to thank them for standing up for parent rights, here are their email addresses: casey.ford@gcisd.net, shannon.braun@gcisd.net, kathy.spradley@gcisd.net, & tammy.nakamura@gcisd.net.

Trustees Who Voted AGAINST Parent Rights

• The 3 progressive trustees on the board voted against the need for parent consent before children may view these materials.
• The progressives are Becky St. John, Jorge Rodriguez, and Coley Canter.
• If you wish to ask them why they didn't stand up for parent rights, here are their email addresses: becky.stjohn@gcisd.net, jorge.rodriguez@gcisd.net, & coley.canter@gcisd.net.

• Likely yes. This is why it's so important that our district protects itself by creating a Parental Consent Area.
• Texas Penal Code Chapter 43, subchapter B, defines "obscenity."
• See the image below for some of the laws we think these books violate.

• The district has clearly used an ineffective process for acquiring library books.
• A notable loophole, besides buying bundles of books in bulk, is their method of evaluating the titles.
• Kirkus Reviews is one of the primary and most notoriously ineffective methods for reviewing books.
• Kirkus approved all of the books removed from Frisco ISD for sexually inappropriate content.

• This is a small sample set of the books that we've found that violate the new district policy, the old district policy, and/or obscenity law (see image of that law above).
• At this point in time, we have no idea how many books the district has been able to filter through.
• We do know, however, that once books have been identified for the Parental Consent Area, we'll all be able to go in and see those titles.
• We may also have online access to the full list of titles (that part is not quite clear yet).

• According to district policy EFB(LOCAL), teachers are to provide a list of the books in their classrooms (see policy excerpt below).
• Transparency of classroom libraries is an incredibly important step for protecting teachers.
• As far as we know, none of the Principals at the campus-level have reached out to their teachers to begin this process.
• We do know, however, that the administration is working on creating a simple process that may involve scanning book barcodes for automatic upload into a database.

• We'd like to partner with the district to help them filter through the thousands of titles in our children's libraries.
• If you'd like to be part of that team, please fill out this form and indicate your interest in the comments section.