Parents teach children essential life skills and important values, including dignity and respect for others. Unfortunately, schools increasingly cannot teach these lessons due to policies that limit diversity and inclusion in the classroom. With over 10,000 book bans targeting works by authors of color, LGBTQ+ authors, and women, the narrowing of curricula is evident. Educators face challenges in teaching inclusively due to restrictive district policies, and this lack of access to diverse narratives shapes children’s perceptions of the world and each other.
Teachers do so much, of course. We love and appreciate them for it. However, in today's climate, many of them are also working within rapidly narrowing boundaries: censored reading lists, sanitized curricula, and policies that seek to strip schools of the diversity that reflects the world our kids live in.
This systemic erasure is happening through anti-DEI policy, with a stark example being the more than 10,000 book bans in public schools - which target books by authors of color, by LGBTQ+ authors, and by women, as well as books that critically center race, gender identity, and immigration through history.
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