Friday, September 1, 2023

Shelving Children Instead of Books - poem

 

Lawrence Hall, HSG

Mhall46184@aol.com

 

Shelving Children Instead of Books

 

“…it is estimated that Germany…destroyed over 100 million books in Europe.”

 

-Molly Guptill Manning, When Books Went to War, xv

 

In Texas

 

We ban children’s books

We don’t ban guns;

And thus we discard

Our daughters and sons

 

HISD to eliminate librarians, turn some libraries into discipline centers at 28 campuses (click2houston.com)

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