Schools are publicly funded by taxes; those taxes are apportioned by elected representatives. The legislature has the right to dictate what the money can and can't be used for. That's not censorship.
It's a huge violation of the spirit of libraries. It is effectively censorship. I guaranteed that the bible, despite portraying just about every subject they are trying to hide, is present in every single school library in the state.
Saying that kids only get free access to the books the state legislators agree with is absolutely censorship.
That's worse than censorship.
This is big government stepping in to override decisions of local governments that they disagree with.
It's the same as choosing to include one bible and pointedly not another.
I object to my taxes you mentioned being used in that manner. I pay for education not indoctrination and ignorance. A large, perhaps the largest function of education is to expose the mind to the variety of the world. Selectively masking off parts of it is literally creating ignorance not education.
so what was going on in all those other cases?
>they'll try to remove it from the [everywhere else] too"
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/gop-lawmaker-petitions-c...
hey look they've already started escalating. Now, that one got dismissed but yeah, your "steelman" is not in fact "silly"
Also, a nakedly unconstitutional attempt to control the inventory of a private company is not exactly the greatest example of an escalating.
Removing certain books from all the libraries is what we call "banning" those books. That's literally what the term means.
> you can just go actually read the text of these laws
Here, kid, no Judy Bloom for you, but you can read the law that prohibits her book? That's just sick.
Because any parents could pay for private school on their own dime.
It's censorship and an infringement on the basic constitutional rights of public employees to independently make purchasing decisions for the government.